Featured Links - February 2, 2020

Links to things that I found interesting but didn't want to do a full post about.

• New Safety Gizmos Are Making Car Insurance More Expensive. The unintended consequences of safer cars.  
• The Pulp Librarian on the history of FORTRAN. If, like me, you learned to program in the mainframe era (using punch cards, no less), you should enjoy this. 
• House legislators want to hand NASA’s human spaceflight program over to Boeing. "Lawmakers also appear to like cost-plus contracts."
• New Mission Will Take First Peek at Sun's Poles. This is an exciting mission and the video has some spectacular graphics. 
• Hackers stole $13,103.91 from me. Learn from my mistakes. "Here are three simple ways to protect yourself from common hacks."
• Here Are the Most Common AirBnb Scams Worldwide. This article reinforces my decision not to use AirBnB.