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Thomas Selfridge: The First Airplane Fatality

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2026/03/thomas-selfridge-first-airplane-fatality.html

25•Hooke•2h ago

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delichon•1h ago

Bah, there's a report of an earlier one in Ovid's Metamorphoses from 8 CE.

http://messybeast.com/dragonqueen/icarus-accident.htm

expedition32•1h ago

When KLM started flying Amsterdam-Batavia in the 1930s it was dangerous but people preferred it to spending weeks on a ship.

rudyfink•59m ago

Surprisingly, the article does not mention that Selfridge field in Michigan is named after Lieutenant Selfridge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selfridge_Air_National_Guard_B....

Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse

https://felixturner.github.io/hex-map-wfc/article/

309•imadr•5h ago•43 comments

JSLinux Now Supports x86_64

https://bellard.org/jslinux/

181•TechTechTech•5h ago•40 comments

Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft

https://writings.hongminhee.org/2026/03/legal-vs-legitimate/

248•dahlia•7h ago•256 comments

Thomas Selfridge: The First Airplane Fatality

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2026/03/thomas-selfridge-first-airplane-fatality.html

25•Hooke•2h ago•3 comments

Show HN: The Mog Programming Language

https://moglang.org

94•belisarius222•4h ago•42 comments

DARPA's new X-76

https://www.darpa.mil/news/2026/darpa-new-x-76-speed-of-jet-freedom-of-helicopter

116•newer_vienna•5h ago•118 comments

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down

https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-09-2026-a-new-chapter-for-bluesky

225•minimaxir•3h ago•199 comments

Launch HN: Terminal Use (YC W26) – Vercel for filesystem-based agents

64•filipbalucha•5h ago•50 comments

Oracle is building yesterday's data centers with tomorrow's debt

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/09/oracle-is-building-yesterdays-data-centers-with-tomorrows-debt.html

99•spenvo•2h ago•28 comments

Rendezvous with Rama

https://blog.engora.com/2026/03/rendezvous-with-rama.html

57•Vermin2000•1h ago•53 comments

Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional

https://cbs12.com/news/local/florida-news-judge-rules-red-light-camera-tickets-unconstitutional

231•1970-01-01•5h ago•361 comments

Fontcrafter: Turn Your Handwriting into a Real Font

https://arcade.pirillo.com/fontcrafter.html

398•rendx•13h ago•129 comments

Fixfest is a global gathering of repairers, tinkerers, and activists

https://fixfest.therestartproject.org/

123•robtherobber•5h ago•13 comments

Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw

https://github.com/DenchHQ/DenchClaw

66•kumar_abhirup•7h ago•68 comments

Restoring a Sun SPARCstation IPX part 1: PSU and NVRAM (2020)

https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/restoring-a-sun-sparcstation-ipx-part-1-psu-and-nvram

82•ibobev•7h ago•46 comments

Rethinking Syntax: Binding by Adjacency

https://github.com/manifold-systems/manifold/blob/master/docs/articles/binding_exprs.md

35•owlstuffing•1d ago•11 comments

Flash media longevity testing – 6 years later

https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1q6xnun/flash_media_longevity_testing_6_years_later/

116•1970-01-01•1d ago•61 comments

So you want to write an "app" (2025)

https://arcanenibble.github.io/so-you-want-to-write-an-app.html

17•jmusall•1h ago•6 comments

The Most Beautiful Freezer in the World: Notes on Baking at the South Pole

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/the-most-beautiful-freezer-in-the-world

18•mitchbob•3h ago•4 comments

Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/workers-report-watching-ray-ban-meta-shot-footage-of-peop...

138•randycupertino•3h ago•52 comments

Durdraw – ANSI art editor for Unix-like systems

https://durdraw.org/

24•caminanteblanco•3h ago•12 comments

An opinionated take on how to do important research that matters

https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2026/how-to-win-a-best-paper-award.html

57•mad•6h ago•9 comments

Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/06/20/ireland-coal-free-ends-coal-power-generation-moneypoint/

812•robin_reala•12h ago•497 comments

Reverse-engineering the UniFi inform protocol

https://tamarack.cloud/blog/reverse-engineering-unifi-inform-protocol

131•baconomatic•9h ago•58 comments

No leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2026

https://lists.iana.org/hyperkitty/list/tz@iana.org/thread/P6D36VZSZBUSSTSMZKFXKF4T4IXWN23P/

60•speckx•10h ago•66 comments

US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf]

https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/memoranda/2026/03/03/25-403.pdf

514•dryadin•16h ago•398 comments

Velxio, Arduino Emulator

https://velxio.dev/

31•dmonterocrespo•1d ago•9 comments

Jolla on track to ship new phone with Sailfish OS, user-replaceable battery

https://liliputing.com/the-new-jolla-phone-with-sailfish-os-is-on-track-to-start-shipping-in-the-...

170•heresie-dabord•5h ago•109 comments

FreeBSD Capsicum vs. Linux Seccomp Process Sandboxing

https://vivianvoss.net/blog/capsicum-vs-seccomp

109•vermaden•9h ago•41 comments

Algebraic topology: knots links and braids

https://aeb.win.tue.nl/at/algtop-5.html

56•marysminefnuf•8h ago•6 comments