I'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?
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
#112I'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
#113I'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
#114Can we, like, stop killing each other for a day or two? Isnt it obvious already that war leads to an endless cycle of war? Attackers attack, defenders defend, the loser then seeks revenge, then they become the attacker, and potentially the winner, then the former winner becomes the loser seeking revenge and so on. We have like endless space to colonise yet we fight for land here on earth as if we wont all eventually…
> It’s getting a bit boring to be honest.
Learn some empathy. Or next time something happens to your country I'm gonna feel the same.
Re: Internet traffic in Israel surged 170% right after the Hamas attack
#115There's another big factor at play: it's become increasingly easier to film yourself in combat and now encouraged by leadership for propaganda reasons. I've been going to r/combatfootage everyday for the past ~3 years; it has exploded in popularity because like a lot of things in life, war is now recorded and disseminated wide. The ukraine war, specifically with drones outfitted with explosives, has shown this. GoPro…
The grass is swaying, not in waves with the wind, here, here and here.
Re: Internet traffic in Israel surged 170% right after the Hamas attack
#116There's another big factor at play: it's become increasingly easier to film yourself in combat and now encouraged by leadership for propaganda reasons. I've been going to r/combatfootage everyday for the past ~3 years; it has exploded in popularity because like a lot of things in life, war is now recorded and disseminated wide. The ukraine war, specifically with drones outfitted with explosives, has shown this. GoPro…
For what reason do you do that ?
Re: Internet traffic in Israel surged 170% right after the Hamas attack
#117There's another big factor at play: it's become increasingly easier to film yourself in combat and now encouraged by leadership for propaganda reasons. I've been going to r/combatfootage everyday for the past ~3 years; it has exploded in popularity because like a lot of things in life, war is now recorded and disseminated wide. The ukraine war, specifically with drones outfitted with explosives, has shown this. GoPro…
There's few activities I can think of that are worse for your mental health. Consider taking a break from the fear/gore porn.
Re: Internet traffic in Israel surged 170% right after the Hamas attack
#118Can we, like, stop killing each other for a day or two? Isnt it obvious already that war leads to an endless cycle of war? Attackers attack, defenders defend, the loser then seeks revenge, then they become the attacker, and potentially the winner, then the former winner becomes the loser seeking revenge and so on. We have like endless space to colonise yet we fight for land here on earth as if we wont all eventually…
The only way this stops is if it evolves out of us. That would take many thousands of years, but I don't think there's even selection pressure for this to happen. Actually, I think it's likely the opposite and we'll never lose the trait.
Re: Internet traffic in Israel surged 170% right after the Hamas attack
#119Well, the Israelis did cut power to the Gaza strip. Hamas of course expected this and probably has many backup generators and satellite links to keep online. As for the civilians...
Re: Internet traffic in Israel surged 170% right after the Hamas attack
#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I'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? Because it isn't reddit. I'm sure this forum is full of Israeli but also Muslim devs, do you really want that kind of strife on HN? I don't. There is no way that kind of discussion will not devolved into a giant mess. It's ev…
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