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24 alternatives to Radio Diaries - The Ski Troops of WWII
How a military experiment founded the modern ski industry
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Radio Diaries - The Ski Troops of WWII launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Stories and Trailblazers of the New American West.
2016 · podcasts.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Heated passions flare in a world of frozen treats
2015 · overcast.fm · its alternatives →
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How pistol shrimps (🍤, not 🏀) helped America win WWII
2016 · radiolab.org · its alternatives →
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Why a group of well-meaning leaders stumbled into war
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Profound study on how WW1 created our ironic, modern world
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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SKI▲577SKI is a on-device voice coding application, which can be used with any agents that supports skill, such as Claude Code, Codex or Hermes. It transcribes your voice (which you can optionally review and edit) and send it to the connected agent. The agent then completes the task, and uses the skill to talk about the updates of the project or a summary or a query using voice. This runs completely on-device. Free. No subscription. Available on both Mac (notch and pill) and Windows (pill widget) It can also be sent to meetings with the intelligence of the connected project to participate actively…
Jul 2026 · heyski.io · its alternatives →
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My great-grandfather Reuben P. Box was a US Forest Ranger in Northern California, and I've got his daily work diary from 1927-1945, through the depression, WWII, Conservation Corps, and lots of forest fires. I've scanned the entire thing, had Claude help with transcription, indexing, and web site building, and put the whole thing here: https://forestrydiary.com/ This is one of those projects I've sat on for years, but with Claude and Mistral helping with the handwriting recognition, and even helping me write a custom scanning app that would auto scan each page and put it into…
Feb 2026 · forestrydiary.com · its alternatives →
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Hootsuite turns their workspace into a ski retreat
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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I've seen quite a few simming discussions on HN, so thought some of you might like this - I've created a map-centered, tactical submarine simulator and it's been a blast to make. I grew up playing Silent Service II on Atari ST with my dad, then got into Silent Hunter IV in the 2000s, and most recently have been loving the more recent UBoat. In each case, the part I always enjoy the most is the plotting and charting aspect - essentially beating uncertain estimates with geometry. So I decided to see how far I could get making my own sim that focused nearly entirely on that aspect. You listen…
May 2026 · silentshark.app · its alternatives →
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Drone news from the Philly area
2016 · its alternatives →
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A serene, infinite skiing simulator
2015 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Great engineering war stories
2016 · its alternatives →
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Handcrafted, durable and refined skis cause winter 🎿
2015 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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User Research War Stories
2016 · rosenfeldmedia.com · its alternatives →
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The story behind the first ever webcam
2016 · internethistorypodcast.com · its alternatives →
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a classic: amazing stories of humans pushing their limits
2015 · radiolab.org · its alternatives →
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Creating a striving business community in Exuma
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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DHH talks software, evolving Basecamp, and "unicorns"
2016 · softwareengineeringdaily.com · its alternatives →
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