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Translating a Fortran F-16 Simulator to Unity3D

https://vazgriz.com/762/f-16-flight-sim-in-unity-3d/
24•hggh•1h ago

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imp0cat•51m ago
The "UNITS" part is wonderful. I had no idea slugs even existed.

    You want to measure how much air mass is in a given volume? That’s gonna be slugs/ft3.
kataklasm•45m ago
The whole imperial/British side has tons of ugly and weird units of measure. Reading old engineering documentation will give you headaches and nightmares from all the inconsistent systems of units.
arnsholt•18m ago
My favourite one was when I learned about the existence of US survey feet.
hans_castorp•5m ago
My favorite "strange unit" is poronkusema:

"A Sami measurement of distance; the distance a reindeer can travel before needing to stop to urinate. Today used to describe something that is at a very obscure distance away" (approximately 7.5 km)

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

jan_g•30m ago

    A nautical mile is ~6,076 feet or exactly 1,852 meters (???).
That is actually defined by distances on Earth (which is of course an approximation, but still ...). So, 1 nautical mile equals to one minute in the 90 degrees hemisphere arc. It's approximately 10k km from equator to the pole, so 10,000km/90/60 equals 1.852km.
JSR_FDED•15m ago
> Note that Fortran supports arrays with an arbitrary starting index, in this case -2. So this table supports indices in the range [-2, 9].

That is such a useful feature! Surprised I haven’t seen that more often. So much fiddly code exists that’s just fixing offsets to conform to 0 (or 1 for Lua) -based indexing!

hans_castorp•8m ago
Pascal (and Modula if I'm not mistaken) supports this too.

LLMs Are Software Diamonds

https://www.evalapply.org/posts/llms-are-diamonds/index.html
1•refset•2m ago•0 comments

Parquet with GEOMETRY type is not GeoParquet

https://rednegra.net/blog/20250925-parquet-with-geometry-type-is-not-geoparquet/
1•severo_bo•3m ago•0 comments

Crates.io: Malicious crates faster_log and async_println

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/09/24/crates.io-malicious-crates-fasterlog-and-asyncprintln/
1•s314•3m ago•0 comments

StoryBee Expands Learning with International Educational Frameworks

1•niksmac•5m ago•1 comments

She Doesn't Want to Embrace My Love for Her

https://etechx.co.ke/she-doesnt-want-to-embrace-my-love-for-her
1•manyikm•6m ago•0 comments

Why Exposure to International Educational Frameworks Matters for Young Minds

https://storybee.app/early-exposure-international-educational-frameworks
1•niksmac•6m ago•0 comments

The Ghost of ChatGPT 4o

https://firasd.substack.com/p/the-ghost-of-chatgpt-4o
1•firasd•6m ago•0 comments

The Perplexity Search API

https://www.perplexity.ai/es/hub/blog/introducing-the-perplexity-search-api
1•KoftaBob•7m ago•0 comments

Microsoft agrees to 11th hour Win 10 end of life concessions

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/26/not_in_eu_and_want/
2•defrost•10m ago•0 comments

'ChatGPT, what stocks should I buy?' AI fuels boom in robo-advisory market

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/chatgpt-what-stocks-should-i-buy-ai-fuels-boom-robo-advi...
1•thm•11m ago•0 comments

OpenAI and Databricks Strike $100M Deal to Sell AI Agents

https://www.wsj.com/articles/openai-and-databricks-strike-100-million-deal-to-sell-ai-agents-f7d7...
2•PotatoNinja•15m ago•0 comments

The Curtain Rises (1944)

https://time.com/archive/6897787/u-s-at-war-the-curtain-rise/
1•thomassmith65•17m ago•0 comments

The Tariff: Voices for Veto (1930)

https://time.com/archive/6745084/the-tariff-voices-for-veto/
1•thomassmith65•18m ago•0 comments

Hardware inspector fired for spotting an error he wasn't trained to find

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/26/on_call/
1•jjgreen•18m ago•0 comments

Against Improvement

https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/against-improvement
1•robtherobber•20m ago•0 comments

Replit defaults public projects to MIT–hidden IP risks explained

https://vasiletiple.substack.com/p/replits-default-license-a-legal-look
2•usernamevasile•28m ago•1 comments

Origin of our own species pushed back by half a million years

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2025/september/origin-of-our-species-lineage-pushed-back-by-h...
1•themgt•32m ago•0 comments

Material 3 Design Comes to Rust and Slint

https://slint.dev/blog/material-comp-1.0
4•NigelBres•32m ago•0 comments

Swift-Subprocess

https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-subprocess
1•frizlab•34m ago•0 comments

Former CEO of Canadian AI unicorn gets arrested for fraud

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-ceo-canadian-ai-company-charged-investment-fraud-sche...
5•eperim•45m ago•0 comments

Microplastics Found Deep Inside Human Bones, Scientists Warn

https://www.sciencealert.com/microplastics-found-deep-inside-human-bones-scientists-warn
2•mikhael•49m ago•0 comments

AI Video Generators

https://genmi.ai
1•Jaylew•49m ago•1 comments

The great sameness: a comic on how AI makes us more alike

https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/the-great-sameness-light-and-shade-digital-220925
6•CrociDB•50m ago•0 comments

OpenVPN2 Security: Taming 2,500 compiler warnings with CodeQL

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/09/25/taming-2500-compiler-warnings-with-codeql-an-openvpn2-cas...
1•summarity•52m ago•0 comments

The Benchmark Saturation Problem: Why AI Evaluation Needs Systems Thinking

https://distributedthoughts.org/the-benchmark-saturation-problem-why-ai-evaluation-needs-a-system...
1•TheIronYuppie•58m ago•0 comments

Amazon will refund $1.5B to 35M customers allegedly duped into paying for Prime

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/25/amazon_will_refund_15b_to/
3•chrisjj•1h ago•0 comments

GitOps Considered Harmful for MVP

https://knockdata.com/blog/gitops-considered-harmful
10•RockieYang•1h ago•9 comments

Ode to Libraries from a Remote Worker

https://sibervepunk.com/ode-to-libraries/
2•siberpunk•1h ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why don't we have a mobile app to screen for skin cancer?

2•sarpdag•1h ago•2 comments

Macroquad: Cross-platform game engine in Rust

https://github.com/not-fl3/macroquad
1•pykello•1h ago•0 comments