HackerNews Summary (2023-06-15 05AM)

Source: Chief Engineer – Turbine Powered VTOL aircraft at JetPack Aviation

Summary
Mayman Aerospace, an aviation startup, created the world’s only successful turbine-powered Jetpack and is now developing the Speeder Air Utility Vehicle. The company is seeking a Chief Engineer to manage the development of the engineering organization, attract top talent and implement and iterate on effective processes.

Fact

🚀 Mayman Aerospace is an aviation startup that created the world’s only successful turbine-powered Jetpack.

💻 The company has active contracts with the Department of Defense (DoD) and is currently doing flight testing on their fourth full-scale prototype called ‘Speeder Micro’.

🛩️ Mayman Aerospace is developing the Speeder Air Utility Vehicle (AUV), which will be the world’s smallest & fastest, heavy-lift turbine-powered VTOL aircraft ever created.

👥 The company fosters a relaxed and informal atmosphere with a fast-paced prototype culture that values teamwork and innovation.

👨‍💼 The Chief Engineer will manage the development of the engineering organization, attract top talent and implement and iterate on effective processes.

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Source: Arzneimittel-Reform: Karl Lauterbach will Drug-Checking bundesweit einführen

Summary
Drug checking aims to identify particularly harmful substances and minimize the risks for drug users. Cocaine often contains toxic substances, such as strong painkillers or toxic animal dewormers, which are very harmful in the long run. Drug-checking also facilitates contact between consultants and addicts.

Fact

💊 Cocaine often contains toxic substances, such as painkillers and toxic animal dewormers.

💉 Drug-checking helps minimize the risks for drug users.

🤝 Drug-checking facilitates contact between consultants and addicts.

🏥 In Berlin, drug users can seek advice at three counseling centers.

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Source: martinpiper/BDD6502: Behaviour Driven Development with 6502 code

Summary
BDD6502 is a framework that enables 6502 code testing with human-readable automated tests, improving efficiency and reducing debugging time by allowing detection of unintended memory access. It uses Cucumber-JVM and a 6502 simulator to execute feature files that describe expected software behaviour.

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🧪 BDD6502 is a project that allows Behaviour Driven Development testing with 6502 code.

👥 The framework enables testing using human-readable automated tests located in feature files that describe expected software behaviour.

🔍 The tests are parsed and executed with Cucumber-JVM, using a 6502 simulator called Symon.

👷‍♂️ Test cases can enable uninitialized memory access protection to detect unintended memory access while running tests, reducing debugging time.

💾 The framework allows code to be included from existing source code and tested with syntax included in source control or extended with Maven build.

📺 The syntax also allows interaction with the remote monitor in Vice emulator for accurate emulation and verification of completed game code.

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Source: Report: A network of channels tried to saturate YouTube with pro-Bolsonaro content during 2022 Brazil election

Summary
Experts have uncovered a coordinated effort to saturate YouTube’s recommender algorithm with pro-Bolsonaro content during the 2022 Brazilian elections. A team of researchers from the University of Exeter and Instituto Vero uncovered a network of influencer-driven videos that shaped political narratives, contributing to the volume of recommended political videos and channels.

Fact

📹 Pro-Bolsonaro political narratives appeared to have been the most recommended by all clusters during the 2022 Brazilian elections.

🚨 Groups of channels featuring content labeled “threats to democracy” received the majority of recommendations on YouTube during the 2022 Brazilian elections.

🔍 The study analyzed over 1,200 videos and identified a complex, web-like influencer system of channels that shaped political narratives during the 2022 Brazilian elections.

🌎 Over 65 percent of videos analyzed were categorized as “candidates and elections.”

💻 Mozilla’s RegretsReporter browser extension was used to build five cluster groups of analyzed videos, showing which videos and channels recommend one another.

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Source: The Stupid Programmer Manifesto

Summary
The author describes themselves as a terrible programmer who needs to cut out all unnecessary code, tools, frameworks and tech to produce anything. They admit to lacking the knowledge for a range of programming tasks such as managing multiple repositories, creating microservices, setting up databases and more, but have found an alternative ways to create functional and simple solutions.

Fact

📦 The author uses a statically linked binary executable file instead of setting up Docker configuration.

📡 Instead of auto scaling groups and cloud services, the author uploads their static binary file via scp to a linux server from a VPS provider.

💽 The author stores objects as they are on disk instead of dealing with object-relational mapping between programming objects and relational data.

🔌 To bypass figuring out REST and HTTP rules, the author uses “json over http” as a medium for a simple RPC with POST requests and json data in the request body.

🎨 The pictures in the post are generated by MidJourney as the author is not skilled enough to create their own art.

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