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The airliner pilot who gets to fly World War Two's biggest bomber

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250918-the-airliner-pilot-who-gets-to-fly-world-war-twos-biggest-bomber

1•bookofjoe•1h ago

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bookofjoe•1h ago

https://archive.ph/Fu7Hg

bookofjoe•1h ago

This film referred to in the article is fascinating.

>B-29 Flight Procedure And Combat Crew Functioning (1944)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvEQvopucl4&t=777s

litoE•1h ago

Interesting: the article says the B29 does not have a steerable nose wheel, but the video clearly shows the nose wheel being steered but then talks about changing engine speeds to steer.

Show HN: Parsing Crusader Kings III data files to generate mods

https://wheybags.com/blog/ck3mods.html

1•wheybags•1m ago•0 comments

iOS and iPadOS 26: The MacStories Review

https://www.macstories.net/stories/ios-and-ipados-26-the-macstories-review/

1•tosh•1m ago•0 comments

NCine Dev Update 22

https://encelo.github.io/2025-09-21-ncine-dev-update-22/

1•encelo•2m ago•1 comments

Dutch disease: How an economic boom turns to doom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease

1•o999•3m ago•0 comments

Wordoid is shutting down – favorite name generators?

https://wordoid.com/

1•voina•10m ago•0 comments

UK formally recognises Palestinian state

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce800enrglzo

14•novateg•12m ago•6 comments

Trump pushes Justice Department to prosecute his political opponents

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1wgg4vgeedo

7•duxup•13m ago•1 comments

Notes on QuestDB's Design: Architecture and Internals

https://ankitsultana.com/2025/09/12/questdb-braindump.html

1•ankitsultana•13m ago•0 comments

A board member's perspective of the RubyGems controversy

https://apiguy.substack.com/p/a-board-members-perspective-of-the

3•Qwuke•15m ago•0 comments

Science of the Gaps

https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/science-of-the-gaps/

2•snjy7•16m ago•0 comments

Psychedelics Blew His Mind. He Wants Other Philosophers to Open Theirs

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/books/review/justin-smith-ruiu-on-drugs-philosophy.html

1•cactusplant7374•16m ago•1 comments

Notorious software bug was killing people 40 years ago

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/notorious-software-bug-was-killing-people-40-years-ago-at-l...

3•gpi•17m ago•0 comments

U.S. State Department Introduces $1 Fee for Diversity Visa Lottery Registration

https://www.boundless.com/blog/us-state-department-introduces-1-dollar-fee-for-dv-lottery-registr...

1•hippich•18m ago•0 comments

Montblanc is getting into the digital notepad game

https://www.theverge.com/news/782288/montblanc-is-getting-into-the-digital-notepad-game

2•voisin•21m ago•0 comments

China Road Trip Exposes List of Uninvestable Assets in the West

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-21/china-road-trip-exposes-list-of-uninvestable-a...

3•JumpCrisscross•21m ago•1 comments

Show HN: AgentSafe – per-task micro-VM sandbox for AI agents (Go)

https://github.com/Sarthak30/agentsafe

1•sdeshwal•23m ago•0 comments

In Historic Shift, U.K., Australia and Canada Recognize a Palestinian State

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/in-historic-shift-u-k-australia-and-canada-recognize-a-pale...

4•JumpCrisscross•24m ago•0 comments

Emacs GTD flow evolved (2023)

https://daryl.wakatara.com/emacs-gtd-flow-evolved/

1•fjk•25m ago•0 comments

How Political Narratives are distributed on Twitter/X

https://www.mpg.de/25378603/0911-matn-influencers-multipliers-and-the-structure-of-polarization-1...

2•Improvement•29m ago•0 comments

Are smartphones eroding the experience of watching football?

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/sep/08/smartphones-eroding-experience-watching-football...

1•PaulHoule•33m ago•0 comments

XAI's Colossus 2 – First Gigawatt Datacenter in the World

https://semianalysis.com/2025/09/16/xais-colossus-2-first-gigawatt-datacenter/

1•rbanffy•34m ago•0 comments

Black Hole Merger: Clearest Evidence yet Einstein, Hawking, Kerr Were Right

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/black-hole-merger-provides-clearest-evidence-yet-that-eins...

2•rbanffy•34m ago•0 comments

Show HN: TypeScript API for India's National Stock Exchange

https://github.com/bshada/nseapi

1•_bshada•34m ago•0 comments

Who is responsible when a chatbot speaks?

https://theconversation.com/suicide-by-chatbot-puts-big-tech-in-the-product-liability-hot-seat-26...

3•rntn•36m ago•1 comments

Storing Unwise Amounts of Data in JavaScript Bigints

https://jonathan-frere.com/posts/bigints-are-cool/

3•Bogdanp•37m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Terminal Calculator in Pure C – Matlab in Your CLI

1•den_dev•41m ago•0 comments

God-washing: Fund fined for misleading clients(2024)

https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20240921266/god-washing-fund-fined-for-misleading-cl...

1•rolph•44m ago•0 comments

WebKit Features in Safari 26.0

https://webkit.org/blog/17333/webkit-features-in-safari-26-0/

1•ksec•47m ago•0 comments

We're here to help-how Ofcom is urging porn sites to follow Online Safety Act

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/sep/21/were-here-to-help-how-ofcom-is-urging-porn-sites-...

5•tomrod•48m ago•0 comments

Apple turns the cables on EU's charger rules

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2025/0921/1534528-apple-eu-charger/

1•anotherhue•49m ago•3 comments