The Electric Flight of Spiders
I'm loving all these spider articles that have cropped up on hacker news and elsewhere [0]-[4].I used to be deathly afraid of spiders, but all these articles and videos over the years have eliminated my fear of them. I like having some around.[0]: The extraordinary life and death of the world's oldest known spider -  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16992596[1]: Spiders eat an astronomical amount of insects - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15887468[2]: How spiders fly - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17398383[3]: How I ended up with pet jumping spiders - https://medium.com/@melissamcewen/how-i-ended-up-with-pet-ju...[4]: Lucas the spider - https://www.youtube.com/user/joshuaslice