I recommend you review the Hacker News Guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).
"Anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" is on topic. John Glenn clearly fits into the group.
The black bar has usually been reserved for noteworthy deaths in the programming and technology fields, and it's always been at the discretion of the HN staff to decide which death deserves it and which doesn't - and most seem not to.
Discussions around people's lives, regardless of their field, are what create worthwhile tributes. The black bar is just vanity.
This is a bit of a snide remark on my part, but maybe the fact that that Dorsey is trying to run two separate companies at the same time may explain some of Twitters aimlessness.
'The Prize' is phenomenal. I took an econ class on the petroleum industry and the prof used it instead of a text book.
PBS turn into into a really good multi-part documentary.
For Firefox I use:
1. Disconnect, helps with privacy and trackers, heard about while reading up on ghostery (I forget which site).
2. Night Mode Page Dim, makes reading at night easier on the eyes, read about it on ghacks.
3. NoScript, stops js from running, I think it was Krebs on Security.
4. Privacy Badger, another privacy tool, read about it on the EFFs website.
5. RefControl, allows the user to manipulate http referrer for certain sites, HN.
6. uBLock Origin, it acts as an http firewall, friend told me about me.
I actually like and use sheets (it's much better than Excel for simple and/or non-analytical use cases), so when I use Excel for something, it's because I want to use Excel for that thing.
If Wired makes this practice standard for articles on their website, I will seriously consider dropping my subscription. I understand that the two are not directly linked, but this new tactic seems toxic and I do not want to support it in any way.
