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Performance and telemetry analysis of Trae IDE, ByteDance's VSCode fork

https://github.com/segmentationf4u1t/trae_telemetry_research
696•segfault22•9h ago•248 comments

Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs

https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2025/07/27/enough-ai-copilots-we-need-ai-huds
120•walterbell•4h ago•28 comments

Big agriculture mislead the public about the benefits of biofuels

https://lithub.com/how-big-agriculture-mislead-the-public-about-the-benefits-of-biofuels/
15•littlexsparkee•1h ago•8 comments

Dumb Pipe

https://www.dumbpipe.dev/
598•udev4096•12h ago•131 comments

I hacked my washing machine

https://nexy.blog/2025/07/27/how-i-hacked-my-washing-machine/
149•JadedBlueEyes•6h ago•60 comments

Blender: Beyond Mouse and Keyboard

https://code.blender.org/2025/07/beyond-mouse-keyboard/
55•dagmx•3d ago•13 comments

Making Postgres slower

https://byteofdev.com/posts/making-postgres-slow/
162•AsyncBanana•5h ago•14 comments

EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google

https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/s/YxmPgFes8a
341•cft•4h ago•148 comments

Solid protocol restores digital agency

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/07/how-solid-protocol-restores-digital-agency.html
12•speckx•3d ago•5 comments

ZUSE – The Modern IRC Chat for the Terminal Made in Go/Bubbletea

https://github.com/babycommando/zuse
36•babycommando•3h ago•10 comments

Return of wolves to Yellowstone has led to a surge in aspen trees

https://www.livescience.com/animals/land-mammals/return-of-wolves-to-yellowstone-has-led-to-a-surge-in-aspen-trees-unseen-for-80-years
367•geox•4d ago•194 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)

136•david927•9h ago•390 comments

Why I write recursive descent parsers, despite their issues (2020)

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/WhyRDParsersForMe
38•blobcode•3d ago•17 comments

IBM Keyboard Patents

https://sharktastica.co.uk/topics/patents
47•tart-lemonade•6h ago•3 comments

The JJ VCS workshop: A zero-to-hero speedrun

https://github.com/jkoppel/jj-workshop
93•todsacerdoti•14h ago•2 comments

Designing a flatpack bed

https://kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2025_07_flatpack/
30•todsacerdoti•4h ago•4 comments

Bits 0x02: switching to orion as a browser

https://andinfinity.eu/post/2025-07-24-bits-0x02/
31•fside•2d ago•2 comments

Tom Lehrer has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/arts/music/tom-lehrer-dead.html
474•detaro•9h ago•85 comments

AlphaDec: A human-readable alternative to ULID/Snowflake IDs

https://github.com/firasd/alphadec
28•firasd•3d ago•6 comments

Claude Code Router

https://github.com/musistudio/claude-code-router
4•y1n0•2h ago•0 comments

Formal specs as sets of behaviors

https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/07/26/formal-specs-as-sets-of-behaviors/
27•Bogdanp•6h ago•2 comments

Allianz Life says 'majority' of customers' personal data stolen in cyberattack

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/26/allianz-life-says-majority-of-customers-personal-data-stolen-in-cyberattack/
211•thm•9h ago•120 comments

Britain's spies-for-hire are running wild

https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-british-spies-private-intelligence-government-ministers/
73•bingden•2d ago•28 comments

The many JavaScript runtimes of the last decade

https://buttondown.com/whatever_jamie/archive/the-many-many-many-javascript-runtimes-of-the-last-decade/
148•LinguaBrowse•12h ago•71 comments

BlueOS Kernel – Written in Rust, compatible with POSIX

https://github.com/vivoblueos/kernel
116•dacapoday•3d ago•21 comments

National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena

https://www.narcap.org
25•handfuloflight•7h ago•15 comments

Katharine Graham: The Washington Post

https://fs.blog/knowledge-project-podcast/outliers-katharine-graham/
79•feross•4d ago•30 comments

Why does a fire truck cost $2m

https://thehustle.co/originals/why-does-a-fire-truck-cost-2-million
93•Guid_NewGuid•2h ago•59 comments

GPT might be an information virus (2023)

https://nonint.com/2023/03/09/gpt-might-be-an-information-virus/
85•3willows•6h ago•70 comments

Update Complete: U.S. Nuclear Weapons No Longer Need Floppy Disks (2019)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/nuclear-weapons-floppy-disks.html
28•voxadam•3h ago•15 comments
Open in hackernews

National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena

https://www.narcap.org
25•handfuloflight•7h ago

Comments

addaon•5h ago
In what way are they "national"? They have no clear association with national authorities for any nation. Their contact info is a personal phone number, and (the same) personal e-mail address for all roles; combined with a squarespace page, it seems unlikely they have national presence. Is it just that if they get reports from Canada they'll ignore them?
subtlestorm•5h ago
Similar to how National Public Radio has no affiliation with national authorities.
addaon•4h ago
But they are funded in part by the national (federal) government, and are available nationally (across the nation); contrast with for example New York Public Radio which does not have national aspirations, being focused instead on... New York.
handfuloflight•5h ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_of_Realto... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Organization_for_Wome... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_of_Underw... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_for_Bilin... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_of_Interc... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_of_Black_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_of_Rocket...

Ergo the use of the term 'national' does not automatically indicate intent by the organization to influence the presumption of association with national (regulatory) bodies.

addaon•5h ago
No, but it conventionally indicates either that, or (a goal of) national presence; for example the National Association of Realtors has members in all fifty states of the (US) nation, not just in one dude's apartment.
handfuloflight•5h ago
NAR also had 117 years to mature.
addaon•5h ago
And had 120 members across ~15 states on day one, yes.
handfuloflight•4h ago
In a totally non-fringe, non-dismissed, socially accepted, even legally defined profession.

We don't even today have standardizations to understand what equipment should be used to even record the data that this phenomena generates.

RajT88•4h ago
Peculiar right?

A well funded agency would likely be able to develop a sensor package which tracks objects with multiple cameras with various zoom lenses and spectrums (IR/UV/etc.) and also radio.

I think tech is becoming so good eventually some enterprising UAP engineer is going to be able to cobble something together with off the shelf components and start selling kits.

Probably nothing will come of it still, I think, but who knows?

synack•4h ago
NARC? Cute.
twic•3h ago
There's some funny square bracketing in here.

> “We don’t do things like that here at all. So, Vauxhall [MI6] will almost never outsource meaningful intelligence work to the private sector,” they said.

That one explains that "Vauxhall" is a metonym for MI6, whose headquarters is in Vauxhall.

> Still, trading in knowledge is commonplace. The same person added that there is a “lot of frustration from both sides of the river [Thames] that the old boys’ network was getting a bit too informal, with people telling their clients that they can call their old buddies.”

That one completely fails to explain that "both sides of the river" means MI6 and MI5 (whose headquarters are on different sides of the Thames).

swores•3h ago
I believe you intended to comment on this thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44687145 - not here.

(If dang sees this he might be able to move yours over and delete mine?)

unidentifiedfly•49m ago
https://www.narcap.org/blog/narcaptr20

> brilliant yellow white plasma object teardrop shaped

> took 8 photographs and four video segments of the UAP including a 4:47 video of the UAP/light embedded in this report.

> ACAS SSR radar did not detect anything

> As the aircraft and its attendant UAP/Light approached the Mexico/US border the UAP/Light began to flicker, it changed colors from yellow-white to pinkish/purple, and turned on a perpendicular heading away from the aircraft and parallel to the border without crossing into the United States

That’s hilarious.

> Movements

> 1. The UAP/Light came from above and stopped/hovered near FL37, about the same altitude as the aircraft, shone a light on the 767 and briefly approached the aircraft. Then it instantly matched the speed, and heading of the aircraft and maintained a consistent separation.

> a. The light descended vertically, stopped abruptly, and shone a light on the 767 causing the crew to believe that there was another airliner on a collision heading with its landing lights on.

> b. It changed direction from vertical descent to a sudden stop/hover, to approaching the aircraft briefly, to taking the same heading and speed of the aircraft at about the same altitude and an estimated distance of 1-2k ft.

> c. It matched the altitude, speed, and heading of the aircraft, 575mph and at 37,000ft for over 32 minutes.

> d. The UAP/Light changed colors and turned away from the aircraft on a perpendicular heading, West, just inside the Mexico/US border.

> e. The UAP/light did not have wings or running lights. It was a new and unique observation to the experienced air crew.

Standard UFO behavior.

handfuloflight•44m ago
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7Ifj2DgBGg
vrilatemypaper•4m ago
Longer: https://youtu.be/Gu0EemWzZpM

Right after 4 minute mark when it goes away was the most interesting part, because it does look like the color changed to yellow and then autofocus stops having trouble and it disappears slowly, which would be consistent with something flying directly away from the camera potentially, and seems to disappear too slowly to be clouds getting in the way?

https://youtu.be/Gu0EemWzZpM?t=4m0s

Planes should be equipped with external 4K cameras now to supplement the black box, maybe call it a red box (since it’s video). Then they could just upload it and clear it out for the next flight, periodically replacing the media. The cost of doing this and additional fuel required for the weight could be fully offset by selling the data, e.g. to farmers, intelligence, police, pilots, and people that subscribe just to see videos of flights. Or maybe you could stream it.