Listen and read USA nuclear forces Emergency Action Messages, heard on 11175 kHz
- ID
- 39282
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 25 Oct 2026, 3:43 AM
- Fetched
- 26 Oct 2026, 12:02 AM
- Provider
- Hacker News
- Category
- dev-community
- Original URL
- https://missileer.watch/
- Source URL
- https://hnrss.org/best
Summary
- Score
- 2.0
- Created
- 26 Oct 2026, 12:02 AM
- Tags
- Audience
- developers
What happened
missileer.watch is a page by Daniel Frenkel / Valar Systems (Oregon) that presents itself as monitoring USA nuclear-force Emergency Action Messages on HFGCS 11175 kHz USB, with recordings and decodes released under CC0 1.0. The text actually served is labelled "SAMPLE DATA · the dev/ fixture, not live traffic", with receiver status reading "WAITING FOR FEED" and no EAM content, audio, or decode samples included. The Hacker News thread drew 184 points and 119 comments, but that discussion text is not in this excerpt.
Why it matters
Nothing here changes what a builder should ship — the page is a dev fixture with no live feed, so there is no data, tool, or incident to act on. The only concrete detail worth noting is the architecture the page describes about itself: it reads two public static files (archive.json and status.json) and uses cookieless Cloudflare Web Analytics, a cheap pattern if you ever build a public monitoring dashboard. No Malaysian or Southeast Asian angle is present in the text.
Discussion angle
The 119-comment thread versus a page that is explicitly a non-live dev fixture — worth a short live check on how much Hacker News attention is driven by the topic itself rather than anything usable in the link, and whether a static-file-only dashboard (archive.json + status.json, no cookies) is a pattern worth copying for your own status pages.