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Angle of Attack
Company blog · flightaware.engineeringsystemsdataprogramming
Angle of Attack is the company blog at flightaware.engineering, writing about systems, data and programming. Since 2020, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Falsehoods programmers believe about aviation”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Angle of Attack for FlightAware engineering posts, including a list of falsehoods programmers believe about flight data and a multi-part series on moving the tech stack off TCL.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The Engineering Blog from FlightAware
Most-linked posts?
- Falsehoods programmers believe about aviation3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-06-06
- Is Everything Up? Monitoring 29,302 Points In-the-Loop in the FlightAware Stack2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-08
What Hacker News says?
8 months ago, Flight aware wrote a blog post about moving their entire tech stack from TCL. The post is called "Managing a Technical Transformation (Part 1)". I couldn't find Part 2. https://flightaware.engineering/managing-a-technical-transfo...
Comment linking /managing-a-technical-transformation-part-1/
on “FlightAware Leaks Customer Data (Name, Email Addresses and Passwords)”Submitted Falsehoods programmers believe about aviation as a story · 473 points
HN discussionReminds me of the excellent, and frequently surprising https://flightaware.engineering/falsehoods-programmers-belie... , which includes surprising false statements like: “Everything that has an ICAO code is on Earth”, and “flights are at most a few days long”. The whole list makes you despair of structuring any data, ever.
Comment linking /falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-aviation/
on “Two American Airlines Flights End Up with the Same Flight Numbers”Submitted Systems Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana as a story · 198 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Argo to Train Predictive Models at FlightAware as a story · 49 points
HN discussionSubmitted Taking Off with Nix at FlightAware as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Smart Tile Grids: Optimizing FlightAware's Maps for Non-Uniform Geographic Data as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Aviation as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Everything Up? Monitoring 29,302 Points In-the-Loop in the FlightAware Stack as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted FlightAware’s Journey into Machine Learning at Scale as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hardcore System Monitoring as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making SQLite Upserts Snappy (With Python and SQLAlchemy) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Driving Reliability at FlightAware as a story · 1 points
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