Hacker News: FL410

New comment by FL410 in "LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash"

FL410 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:53:46 +0000

And therein lies the problem. Clearly, having one overworked controller running a combined tower is not safe nor sustainable.

New comment by FL410 in "LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash"

FL410 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:35:17 +0000

This. Go look at the atc subreddit, controllers have been begging for help for ages. This isn't one guy's fault.

New comment by FL410 in "Waymo Safety Impact"

FL410 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:01:57 +0000

https://www.mit.edu/~jfc/right.html

New comment by FL410 in "Waymo Safety Impact"

FL410 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:15:46 +0000

>it's customary to leave a path in the left 'passing lane' for any traffic that wants/needs to go faster than you

It's not just customary in many (most?) states, it's the law. People who sit in the left lane are the problem.

New comment by FL410 in "Scientists discover beer bottle in the Mariana Trench (2024)"

FL410 — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 17:19:55 +0000

But the forces are the same all around the bottle (again assuming it is open)

New comment by FL410 in "Unifi Travel Router"

FL410 — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 04:23:17 +0000

Probably. I do this with a GLinet and it works great.

New comment by FL410 in "Autoland saves King Air, everyone reported safe"

FL410 — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 22:34:21 +0000

This is a huge milestone, and everyone at Garmin who worked on Autoland should be patting themselves on the back, they saved some lives today and will undoubtedly save more. Amazing technology.

New comment by FL410 in "US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites"

FL410 — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 23:54:41 +0000

That’s not how it works, like at all. Private airports don’t have controllers, and the ones I presume you are thinking of (smaller PUBLIC airports) the controllers are either employed or funded by the FAA.

New comment by FL410 in "Guideline has been acquired by Gusto"

FL410 — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 13:59:50 +0000

Their support is a literal train wreck

New comment by FL410 in "Gemini in Chrome"

FL410 — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 14:25:04 +0000

This is literally the worst part of Gemini. I spent a lot of time trying to figure out if, and if so what, they are training on even with my stupid $250/mo subscription. It's totally opaque.

New comment by FL410 in "The Cursed programming language"

FL410 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 04:05:15 +0000

I'm sorry but I love it

New comment by FL410 in "Setting up a home VPN server with WireGuard (2019)"

FL410 — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 20:27:17 +0000

And when it doesn't (which is often the case behind NAT), you're at the mercy of their relays which are not particularly fast.

New comment by FL410 in "Setting up a home VPN server with WireGuard (2019)"

FL410 — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 19:30:45 +0000

Tailscale is slloowwww and I'm not a big fan of someone else controlling my network. Yeah, tailnet lock at all that, I know, but still...

New comment by FL410 in "VHS-C: When a lazy idea stumbles towards perfection [video]"

FL410 — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 20:52:46 +0000

Then you'd really be missing out, because Aging Wheels is awesome

New comment by FL410 in "Weather Model based on ADS-B"

FL410 — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 01:37:15 +0000

This is really cool and not what I was expecting. Nice work!

New comment by FL410 in "Weather Model based on ADS-B"

FL410 — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 01:36:51 +0000

You're right, but "slightly older" is on the order of seconds.

New comment by FL410 in "Ask HN: Any active COBOL devs here? What are you working on?"

FL410 — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 15:17:22 +0000

In my experience, it's usually lack of awareness about modern security risks, and lack of familiarity with modern infrastructure paradigms. The latter really isn't a problem since these systems are usually standalone, but the former does become a problem - they often are from a time where this just wasn't something to consider. As a result, these legacy systems are often using default passwords, have tons of crazy stuff exposed to the network, and are comprised of custom code written specifically for the business purpose (so the documentation is only as good as what they made).

On the other hand, these guys generally write pretty neat, lean code that is quick, reliable, and directly responsive to the business. The really fun thing is watching the users fly through the keyboard-only screens, sometimes with muscle memory that is faster than the terminal emulator can update - they're literally working ahead of the screens.

New comment by FL410 in "Measuring power network frequency using junk you have in your closet"

FL410 — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 17:14:05 +0000

Is there any API for the US grids?

I remember reading an article about this being used in some forensic capacity to determine the date/time a video was taken by comparing the frequency noise.

New comment by FL410 in "Final report on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 in-flight exit door plug separation"

FL410 — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 23:22:38 +0000

It’s a bit more nuanced than that. CFIT is intended to classify accidents where the aircraft itself was not causal. In any other case, it is assumed that there were mechanical or other aircraft-related factors that were contributory or causal.

New comment by FL410 in "Military leaders aghast as Zuck crashes classified Oval Office meeting"

FL410 — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 16:57:03 +0000

Why would a cell phone even work in a SCIF?