<story><title>DARPA Moves Forward on X-65: Plane with no moving control surfaces</title><url>https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2024-01-03</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>foobiekr</author><text>HN is not actually good at programming and CS, either.</text></item><item><author>7thaccount</author><text>HN is really good at programming language, IT, and computer science discussions. It really varies once you get outside that bubble.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes you get a topic on mathematics and a few mathematicians are on there answering questions directly and it&amp;#x27;s great. In my own field of energy markets and power grid operation, I&amp;#x27;ve noticed the comments have a good mixture of informed folks and those that are way off base. I&amp;#x27;m sure it&amp;#x27;s much worse on some topics and that I&amp;#x27;m just as guilty at times :)&lt;p&gt;Hopefully there are enough experts in an area to drown out the noise.</text></item><item><author>LargeTomato</author><text>Darpa is testing a completely novel type of flight control and all these HN comments are just nitpicking irrelevant things, missing the forest through the trees, and saying &amp;quot;it won&amp;#x27;t work on propeller drones&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;The quality of discussion on this website is abysmal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>7thaccount</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not aware of any better place for people to chat about programming languages including esoteric stuff like APL where someone actively developing the main commercial offering and another writing an open source alternative are actively contributing to the conversation and explaining how low level operations work.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve seen plenty of experts here on stuff like Prolog, Lisp, Forth, Smalltalk (Alan Kay has posted on here), tons on Java, Python, R, C++, Julia...it goes on and on.</text></comment>
<story><title>DARPA Moves Forward on X-65: Plane with no moving control surfaces</title><url>https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2024-01-03</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>foobiekr</author><text>HN is not actually good at programming and CS, either.</text></item><item><author>7thaccount</author><text>HN is really good at programming language, IT, and computer science discussions. It really varies once you get outside that bubble.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes you get a topic on mathematics and a few mathematicians are on there answering questions directly and it&amp;#x27;s great. In my own field of energy markets and power grid operation, I&amp;#x27;ve noticed the comments have a good mixture of informed folks and those that are way off base. I&amp;#x27;m sure it&amp;#x27;s much worse on some topics and that I&amp;#x27;m just as guilty at times :)&lt;p&gt;Hopefully there are enough experts in an area to drown out the noise.</text></item><item><author>LargeTomato</author><text>Darpa is testing a completely novel type of flight control and all these HN comments are just nitpicking irrelevant things, missing the forest through the trees, and saying &amp;quot;it won&amp;#x27;t work on propeller drones&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;The quality of discussion on this website is abysmal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bunderbunder</author><text>No large, well-known open discussion venue is really very good at discussing any topic.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not sure it&amp;#x27;s even possible for one to be. As the saying goes, &amp;quot;None of us is as dumb as all of us.&amp;quot;</text></comment>