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bart__
Interesting event, annoyingly bad written AI article
genxy
Utter garbage by the "authors" of this post. Shame on you Haye Kesteloo. It takes three sentences to not vomit this crap into the world.
Cameri
I wonder if there’s a way to hide comments regarding AI in HN, complaints included.
prennert
This article read like Claude output placed inside massive ads. 0 value above telling Claude to summarize the source for me. Except, the source was not linked as article link.
rob74
Winning $ 1.25 million is great - but I wonder how they feel about not getting the full $ 2.5 million prize because they missed the 4:1 target by 4% ?
dyauspitr
Hunh so for pure lifting our standard helicopter design is apparently the best. How did we stumble on the perfect design half a century ago? Was it sheer luck and constraints or can you actually do the math for this to work it out?
VBprogrammer
A nearly 4:1 ratio makes a 25kg drone very interesting from a personal mobility perspective. Something you could fly a few miles with and then easily roll around an office. Sadly scaling in aerodynamics is notoriously non-linear.
LoganDark
Every post on this website looks AI generated but at least most of it doesn't feel like complete fluff.
stubish
I assume blimps or lighter than air components where illegal? Or is it just too hard to fly the larger volume around the course?
odyssey7
The prize terms are neat. To incentivize not sabotaging other teams in some way? You would win more if someone were to win.
anon48293
Keeps reloading to load ads and LLM spam. Don’t post from this shitty site again pls.
Neywiny
I saw a lot of novel designs for this but what was interesting to me was Hoarder Sam's design which I followed for a bit. He started without a tail rotor but did have one large main rotor. Then his design kinda evolved to use a tail rotor. Didn't use a swash plate, but by the end of it he was a short hop away from basically just an efficiently designed conventional helicopter. Like carcinisation.
xyzzy_plugh
> Avidrone Inc.

Nice to see a Canadian company at the top.

It seems like the defense industry in Canada is starting to boom.