Show HN: Sail a historical full-rigged ship in real global weather

This is a simulator of a frigate from about 1800. It has realistic physics, tuned to match historical performance. The UI is based around commands given in period naval language. Rather than use the current weather, it has a full year’s weather data (for 1980 – taken from https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.ncep.reanalysis2.html ). This allows the weather to change realistically under time acceleration. […]

For Solana Users, ‘Priority Fees’ Mean Paying Up to Skip the Line

By CD Read more: CoinDesk: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Crypto News and Price Data The network’s developers implemented a new feature last year to let some users to pay extra to avoid congestion. Even the elevated “priority fee” rate is still considered low, so the adoption rate is growing.Publish at: February 24, 2023 at 08:39PM