Internet traffic in Israel surged 170% right after the Hamas attack
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Internet traffic in Israel surged 170% right after the Hamas attack
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Re: Internet traffic in Israel surged 170% right after the Hamas attack
#2With the 2nd graph, I am surprised it is that low given that full scale war is basically ongoing. Was some internet cut off in Israel as a result of the attacks?
Re: Internet traffic in Israel surged 170% right after the Hamas attack
#3I'm a late adopter of HN, but was a bit surprised to see nothing about Israel/Hamas on the home page. Is that sort of political stuff forbidden, or is there just no interest in this community?
Re: Internet traffic in Israel surged 170% right after the Hamas attack
#4With the 2nd graph, I am surprised it is that low given that full scale war is basically ongoing. Was some internet cut off in Israel as a result of the attacks?
There might also be network congestion; I would consider this the rate of traffic able to reach Cloudflare.
Re: Internet traffic in Israel surged 170% right after the Hamas attack
#5The data shows huge mobile uptick. So if a tragedy happen, a lot of people watch videos on their mobile phones.
Not having data, but I observed similar phenomena in Poland during first week of Russia reinvasion of Ukraine. So many people glued to phones during all kind of situations.
Re: Internet traffic in Israel surged 170% right after the Hamas attack
#6I'm a late adopter of HN, but was a bit surprised to see nothing about Israel/Hamas on the home page. Is that sort of political stuff forbidden, or is there just no interest in this community?
Forbidden per the guidelines.
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Re: Internet traffic in Israel surged 170% right after the Hamas attack
#7I'm a late adopter of HN, but was a bit surprised to see nothing about Israel/Hamas on the home page. Is that sort of political stuff forbidden, or is there just no interest in this community?
Check https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
In general, even if it's submitted, it's up to a bunch of clicks on the small arrows to keep it on the first page, and other submissions might win instead.
Even if there was a "it must be about hardware or software" rule, that wouldn't be such a bad thing, otherwise we'd just end up getting another reddit.
Re: Internet traffic in Israel surged 170% right after the Hamas attack
#8I'm a late adopter of HN, but was a bit surprised to see nothing about Israel/Hamas on the home page. Is that sort of political stuff forbidden, or is there just no interest in this community?
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The guideline criteria say not to submit flamebait, to submit things with interesting, novel intellectual discussion, and generally nothing that is on tv news.
I would imagine that the decades long Israeli/Palestinian conflict would violate all three.
Re: Internet traffic in Israel surged 170% right after the Hamas attack
#9The data shows huge mobile uptick. So if a tragedy happen, a lot of people watch videos on their mobile phones. Not having data, but I observed similar phenomena in Poland during first week of Russia reinvasion of Ukraine. So many people glued to phones during all kind of situations.
If you are fleeing your house at the last minute of stuck at work you are not dragging a desktop with you.
The phone is a powerful portable device; if it works, use that instead of a hand crank radio.
Re: Internet traffic in Israel surged 170% right after the Hamas attack
#10I'm a late adopter of HN, but was a bit surprised to see nothing about Israel/Hamas on the home page. Is that sort of political stuff forbidden, or is there just no interest in this community?
Anything that can lead to flame wars is frowned upon and gets pruned in a number of ways. Political topics tend not to lead to useful, sober discussions.