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In what way is requiring someone holding the title pilot to know how to manually fly a plane in case of disaster “rent-seeking”?
by goncharow · Oct 30, 2026
> Shouldn't this problem show up in a much larger portion of the population? Casual awareness of studies on this suggest that it DOES show up but the symptoms (lowered immune fu…
by breakwaterlabs · Oct 30, 2026
Show HN: I built a multiplayer game where you're an aerial fighter cat
by pawelwentpawel · Oct 30, 2026 · 39 points
Post-training 4B model with RL to fly Tesla Roadster 21% better than GPT-6 Astra
by wondersky · Oct 30, 2026 · 10 points
The more competition in this space (pun intended), the better I'm sure everyone agrees with that I'm confident Starship will be used to fly human crews at some point as well If…
by extraextra · Oct 30, 2026
No, just to colonize with their religious before they fly back to their mega churches and call it charity.
by Geezus_42 · Oct 30, 2026
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A fly is an insect of the order Diptera, named for the single pair of wings. The hindwings have evolved into halteres, organs that sense rotation, giving flies precise control of their flight. Diptera is a large order containing more than 150,000 species, including horse-flies, crane flies, hoverflies, mosquitoes and others. Read more on Wikipedia