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James Haydon
Personal blog · jameshaydon.github.ioprogrammingai
James Haydon's personal blog at jameshaydon.github.io covers programming and ai. Since 2023, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “UK air traffic control meltdown”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-19, 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 this blog for a post on why you can't cURL a border and for a detailed analysis of a 2023 air traffic failure caused by two locations sharing one three-letter code.
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Most-linked posts?
- UK air traffic control meltdown3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-09-11
- Solving `Passport Application` with Haskell2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-28
What Hacker News says?
Great post! Reminds me of (UK) Passport Application game: https://jameshaydon.github.io/passport/
Comment linking /passport/
on “You can't cURL a Border”Submitted Solving `Passport Application` with Haskell as a story · 308 points
HN discussionHmm, is this the same incident which happened last year? Or is this a new incident? From Sept 2023 (flightglobal.com): - https://archive.is/uiDvy - Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37430384 Also some more detailed analysis: - https://jameshaydon.github.io/nats-fail/ - Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37461695
Comment linking /nats-fail/
on “Air traffic failure caused by two locations 3600nm apart sharing 3-letter code”Submitted Using algebra and LLMs to verify a flight-plan bug fix in Lean as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted UK air traffic control meltdown as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deep dive into the UK air traffic control meltdown as a story · 1 points
HN discussion