The Exploding Whale: An infamous moment in Oregon history creates a strangely beloved icon
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited as the direct link to the infamous exploding whale footage, and used for jokes about explosions and whales.
What it is
A KATU News re-edit from remastered 4K footage of the 1970 Oregon incident in which officials blew up a beached whale and showered the beach with blubber.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2020 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Cites ceph_ · 2020-11 · on “The Exploding Whale remastered: 50th anniversary of legendary Oregon event”
Direct link to the video without the shitty local news site: [this video] Side rant: Their ad-tracking cookie opt-out is the epitome of a dark design pattern. It took over 2 minutes to run. Including saying "done" in a pop out and the only leaving a cancel button for another 15 seconds. There's absolutely zero reason it should take even 1/10th of that time, other than purposefully bad UX.