Final report on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 in-flight exit door plug separation
On January 5, 2024, a Boeing 737-9 airplane operated by Alaska Airlines as flight 1282 experienced an in-flight separation of the left mid exit door (MED) plug and rapid depressurization when climbing through about 14,830 ft after takeoff from Portland International Airport (PDX), Portland, Oregon. One flight attendant and 7 passengers received minor injuries; the […]
Working with the UK Government to Protect Children Online
Part of Bluesky’s mission to create a more open and decentralized social web is helping users feel safe and in control of their experience. We always try to balance safety with privacy, and free expression with civility. To achieve our mission, we also work with governments around the world. In the UK, the Online Safety […]
Show HN: Cactus – Ollama for Smartphones
Hey HN, Henry and Roman here – we’ve been building a cross-platform framework for deploying LLMs, VLMs, Embedding Models and TTS models locally on smartphones. Ollama enables deploying LLMs models locally on laptops and edge severs, Cactus enables deploying on phones. Deploying directly on phones facilitates building AI apps and agents capable of phone use […]
George Orwell Diaries 1938-1942
There is evidently trouble in Syria. Handout this morning to the effect that – most unfortunately and much against H.M. Government’s will – General de Gaulle is insisting that Syria is still under a French mandate and it is impossible yet to make a treaty, as in the case of Irak. General de Gaulle’s attitude […]
US utilities plot big rise in electricity rates as data centre demand booms
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Retail cyber attacks: NCA arrest four for attacks on M&S, Co-op and Harrods
Four people have been arrested in the UK as part of a National Crime Agency investigation into cyber attacks targeting M&S, Co-op and Harrods. Two males aged 19, another aged 17, and a 20-year-old female were apprehended in the West Midlands and London this morning (10 July) on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences, blackmail, […]
Launch HN: Leaping (YC W25) – Self-Improving Voice AI
Hey HN, I’m Arkadiy from Leaping AI (https://leapingai.com). Leaping lets you build voice AI agents in a multi-stage, graph-like format that makes testing and improvement much easier. By evaluating each stage of a call, we can trace errors and regressions to a particular stage. Then we autonomously vary the prompt for that stage and A/B […]
Show HN: asyncmcp – Run MCP over async transport via AWS SNS+SQS
A regular MCP Server but working over queues : queue-based-mcp-example.mov Quoting from the official description : MCP is an open protocol that standardizes how applications provide context to LLMs. But a lot of this context is not always readily available and takes time for the applications to process – think batch processing APIs, webhooks or […]
Measuring the Impact of AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity
We conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to understand how early-2025 AI tools affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers working on their own repositories. Surprisingly, we find that when developers use AI tools, they take 19% longer than without—AI makes them slower. We view this result as a snapshot of early-2025 AI capabilities in […]
Seven Engineers Suspended After $2.3M Bridge Includes 90-Degree Turn
Ever had to make a 90-degree turn on a bridge? No? That’s the problem. In India, seven engineers just got suspended for designing exactly that. A brand-new $2.3 million bridge in Bhopal, India, is going viral—not because it solved traffic, but because it bends at nearly a 90-degree angle. Now, seven engineers have been suspended, […]