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analogpixelyesterday at 6:52 PM5 repliesview on HN

I pine for the day when news is this:

- Flight 767 returned to airport after seeing a bluetooth device named "BOMB"

- After asking all passengers multiple times to turn off all devices and not getting the "BOMB" to go away, they flight had to return to the airport where officials were waiting to search the plane.

- This was not intentional, but a product that calls it self "BOMB" https://hellottec.com/product/bomb-portable-bluetooth-speake...

- Passengers on the plane commented of the event as it was going on in this reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedairlines/s/57lugEMhxl

I guess I shouldn't pine, I can just have AI summarize all sources for me, and stop dealing with poor reporting that tries to drag 3 bullet points into multiple pages for the sake of selling ad space.


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eh_why_notyesterday at 7:34 PM

FYI Reddit "s" links require login, an unnecessary burden. For your purpose here a direct link would have sufficed:

https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedairlines/comments/1tse6mq/ua_...

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tasukiyesterday at 7:02 PM

Oh, I thought how stupid it was to return the flight based on Bluetooth device name, which is just a random string identifying a thing. But I think it's also strongly discouraged to bring devices called bombs on a plane?

monkeyworkyesterday at 6:55 PM

I'd love that as well - can we not get LLMs to summerize and give us non-click bait versions of these events.

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throwaway27727yesterday at 7:14 PM

The product website has been hugged to death.