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Chess in the Air
Personal blog · chessintheair.comscience
Chess in the Air is a personal blog at chessintheair.com about science. Since 2019, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “The Risk of Dying Doing What We Love”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its per-hour risk comparisons of everyday and adventurous activities, such as cycling versus driving and diving or flying. It is cited as the source of the relative-risk statistic.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A Glider Pilot Learns to Play Mother Nature
Most-linked posts?
- The Risk of Dying Doing What We Love7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2019-10-31
What Hacker News says?
I think the proper way to compare bike and car fatalities is to compare deaths per mile traveled or, as this article does in a charming way, deaths per hour. https://chessintheair.com/the-risk-of-dying-doing-what-we-lo...
Comment linking /the-risk-of-dying-doing-what-we-love/
on “U.S. is said to open criminal inquiry into Boeing”Submitted The Risk of Dying Doing What We Love as a story · 54 points
HN discussionIt's 50 times more dangerous than driving per hour: https://chessintheair.com/the-risk-of-dying-doing-what-we-lo...
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on “Dynamic Soaring”Submitted The risk of doing what we love as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI guess you might be saying that, but it's probably not actually true. "I feel less safe driving to some of the caves than I do diving them" see https://www.dg-aviation.de/en/library/safety-comes-first and https://chessintheair.com/the-risk-of-dying-doing-what-we-lo...
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on “Titanic tourist sub goes missing sparking search”Submitted The Risk of Dying Doing What We Love as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe interesting article that I am pretty sure produced the statistic about relative risk: https://chessintheair.com/the-risk-of-dying-doing-what-we-lo...
Comment linking /the-risk-of-dying-doing-what-we-love/
on “From Nevada to Kansas by Glider”