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I built an ROV to solve missing person cases

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Re: I built an ROV to solve missing person cases

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Post by gowld »

lxgr wrote: post #7
dang wrote: post #2

As you can see, this is long: https://suanto.com/2024/06/06/the-time-I-built-an-ROV-02/ https://suanto.com/2024/06/06/the-time-I-built-an-ROV-03/ https://suanto.com/2024/06/06/the-time-I-built-an-ROV-04/ https://suanto.com/2024/06/06/the-time-I-built-an-ROV-05/ https://suanto.com/2024/06/06/the-time-I-built-an-ROV-06/ https://suanto.com/2024/06/06/the-time-I-built-an-ROV-07/ https://suanto.com/2024/06/06/the-time-I-b…

Would be great to be able to read all of these as a single article! (I'm intrigued, but I'm not saving 13 blog posts to my read-it-later app. Even stitched together, it wouldn't be the longest in my list by a long shot.)

It's just one article, with 13 pages. There are page-turn buttons, like in a book. You can do it. Bookmark the first page.

Re: I built an ROV to solve missing person cases

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Post by gowld »

tw04 wrote: post #127

The author clearly reads HN or used to. I’m curious if he plans on pursuing this further. Sounds like the last investigation wrapped in 2021 and he may have even gotten a cash injection to upgrade some of his kit. The last update kind of leaves you hanging!

It's literally the first sentence in the article.

"I didn’t know it back then but it all started while I was reading Hacker News in February 2019"

Re: I built an ROV to solve missing person cases

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Post by darkwater »

Natsu wrote: post #133
bemmu wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's absolutely brilliant. Everyone has watched a TV show where a case is slowly being solved, but who actually considers that oh yeah, I could actually become the person who searches for a random missing person case, instead of watching it on Netflix? And the amount of McGyvering involved! How many people would have given up at one of the steps? Oh it requires coding in C++ for Arduino, sure, I'll just do that. Oh,…

I'm surprised someone hasn't made a miniseries out of this yet. It'd make a good one.

Maybe someone from Netflix engineering is reading this and passing the idea to someone tied with content production...

Re: I built an ROV to solve missing person cases

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Post by telesilla »

0xFEE1DEAD wrote: post #143

Although it has already been said close to 137 times, this is the best read I've had this year, although that's likely an understatement. I love the hacking spirit and how they always settle on the simplest solution, whether from a technical standpoint or an investigative one. Great job, and I'm glad they got the recognition they deserve. Shout out to the Finnish police as well for not letting their ego interfere wit…

Yes just riviting and at the end, very emotional knowing what peace they brought to their parents. I'm also so glad they got the presidential recognition they deserved.

Re: I built an ROV to solve missing person cases

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Post by dcow »

Reading this kinda makes one question the incentives and competency of government investigation programs. All they did was ask “given the reliable info, where could the car be”? And they display better deductive reasoning than professional investigators, and achieve results with a budget of pennies. I know you can’t win them all but still I’m a little disillusioned and question whether investigation agencies should be publicly funded and operated when I read these type of stories.

Re: I built an ROV to solve missing person cases

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Post by DiggyJohnson »

kuu wrote: post #154
nervousvarun wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you RTFA? https://suanto.com/2024/06/06/the-time-I-built-an-ROV-06/

Is in the 6th section, maybe a bit too late, don't you think?

Does anyone else feel like they've seen this complaint a lot more this week on HN?

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Post by Hamuko »

trinsic2 wrote: post #132
_hbro wrote: post #22

> So where was he going? I saw two possibilities: either to Tikkakoski to visit his ex-girlfrind he was on the phone with or; just to drive around with a new powerful car, to shake off the heated phone call. I don't understand how suicide isn't at the top of the list here. He was obviously very upset emotionally. He didn't care for his belongs other than his phone. He didn't care to steal someone's car or answer for…

Why would he bring his phone though?

Why not? If you're planning a suicide, does it ultimately matter if your phone is in your pocket or at a log cabin?
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