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We don't say "plane accident." We shouldn't say "car accident" either. (2015)

https://www.vox.com/2015/7/20/8995151/crash-not-accident
3•speckx•3h ago

Comments

bityard•3h ago
Danny Butterman: Hey, why can't we say "accident," again?

Nicholas Angel: Because "accident" implies there's nobody to blame.

JohnFen•2h ago
I've never thought, and still don't think, that "accident" implies there's nobody to blame. All it means is that the incident was not intentional.

What Is Work?

https://blog.curtisduggan.com/what-is-work/
1•wayviator•1m ago•0 comments

How I Accidentally Built What AI Was Missing

https://github.com/TheCee/origami-framework/blob/main/how_i_accidentally_built_what_ai_was_missing.md
1•TheCee•1m ago•1 comments

Should you backup your S3 buckets or trust they will never fail?

https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1921692656041599049
1•nomilk•1m ago•0 comments

US popularity collapses worldwide in wake of Trump's return

https://www.politico.eu/article/usa-popularity-collapse-worldwide-trump-return/
1•doener•2m ago•0 comments

The Orange Pi RV2 RISC-V SBC

https://taoofmac.com/space/reviews/2025/05/12/2230
1•rcarmo•10m ago•0 comments

Wtfis: Passive hostname, domain and IP lookup tool for non-robots

https://github.com/pirxthepilot/wtfis
2•todsacerdoti•10m ago•0 comments

Indiscriminate killers? – The reality of cluster munitions

https://militaryrealism.blog/2025/05/08/indiscriminate-killers/
2•baud147258•11m ago•0 comments

States Chase OpenAI's $100B AI American Dream

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/10/stargate-openai-data-centers-states/
1•bookofjoe•12m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Not sure about the future of tech

2•xblpob•13m ago•0 comments

4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere

https://www.wired.com/story/4chan-is-dead-its-toxic-legacy-is-everywhere/
1•colinprince•15m ago•0 comments

Three things we learned about Sam Altman by scoping his kitchen

https://www.ft.com/content/b1804820-c74b-4d37-b112-1df882629541
1•colinprince•16m ago•0 comments

Taleb: IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (Argument Closed)

https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-swindle-f131c101ba39
3•david927•17m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Joyloop.ai Custom Animated Musical GIF Cards for Any Occasion

https://joyloop.ai
1•refrosh•19m ago•0 comments

You can now export your deep research reports as well-formatted PDFs

https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/1921998278628901322
1•mfiguiere•19m ago•0 comments

Our Genetic Constitution

https://www.palladiummag.com/2025/05/11/our-genetic-constitution/
2•minifyre•29m ago•0 comments

Qatar-gifted Air Force One may be security, upgrade disaster

https://www.defensenews.com/air/2025/05/12/experts-qatar-gifted-air-force-one-may-be-security-upgrade-disaster/
2•howard941•31m ago•0 comments

VPNSecure cancels lifetime subscriptions after changing owners

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/vpn-firm-says-it-didnt-know-customers-had-lifetime-subscriptions-cancels-them/
3•ndr42•32m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: What is the objective of your life?

1•astrodude•35m ago•1 comments

WaSCR: A WebAssembly Instruction-Timing Side Channel Repairer

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3696410.3714693
1•nenaoki•35m ago•0 comments

Blitzscaling for Tyrants

https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/blitzscaling-for-tyrants
2•namenumber•38m ago•0 comments

2025 EuroLLVM Developers' Meeting

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_R5A0lGi1AA3VCp6hZtgJKq4snmBQGDF
3•matt_d•38m ago•0 comments

Bhutan's Plan to Boost Its Economy with 'Mindful Capitalism'

https://time.com/7204652/gelephu-mindfulness-city-bhutan-economy/
1•jaredwiener•38m ago•0 comments

Microsoft is killing SharePoint alerts

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-is-killing-sharepoint-alerts/
1•bundie•39m ago•0 comments

Tech oligarchs are gambling our future on a fantasy

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/03/tech-oligarchs-musk
5•doener•44m ago•2 comments

Journal for the Philosophy of Planetary Computation

https://journal.antikythera.org/
1•namenumber•46m ago•0 comments

New concept drastically reduces manufacturing time for aircraft doors

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-04-concept-materials-production-drastically-aircraft.html
1•PaulHoule•47m ago•0 comments

National Hotel Disease (1857)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Hotel_disease
1•quuxplusone•48m ago•0 comments

From Ashes to Innovation: How Personal Tragedy Forged My Entrepreneurial Path

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/from-ashes-to-innovation-how-personal-tragedy-and-global-crisis-forged-my-entrepreneurial-path-0019cbffeb
1•buzzbyjool•50m ago•0 comments

Multiple Security Issues in Screen

https://security.opensuse.org/2025/05/12/screen-security-issues.html
3•_JamesA_•52m ago•0 comments

First white South Africans arrive in US as Trump claims they face discrimination

https://www.reuters.com/world/first-white-south-africans-fly-us-under-trump-refugee-plan-2025-05-12/
2•belter•53m ago•0 comments