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Is there something about the Equation dump that is not relevant to HN? Seems that most stories related to it are rapidly flagged off the front page, despite obv
by daxorid 10y ago
Is there something about the Equation dump that is not relevant to HN? Seems that most stories related to it are rapidly flagged off the front page, despite obvious interest.
- cornchips 10y agoEPICDOWNVOTE :-)
- rdtsc 10y agoYeah I found that surprising. Wonder what happened. One would think _Hacker_ News crowd would be marginally interested in _hacking_ news, but oh well.
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- Jerry2 10y agoAbsolutely. I suspect mod(s) are taking it off the front page.
- ritchiea 10y agoIt's "political" news. More important to keep the focus on new versions of Rails, rounds of funding and IPOs.
- toufka 10y agoThe many dollars the DOD has funding these projects eventually flow into the hands of (many) people with actual jobs. They have the culture to read HN, but cannot click the link, much less upvote the story for fear of losing their careers. I wonder if the number of readings of those stories drops significantly just owing to the number of people here who are ultimately paid by the same budget as paid for the files in question.
- Relys 10y agoHasn't some past leaks been covered by the Freedom of Information Act?
- dang 10y agoAu contraire: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12290623 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12290623 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12297530 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12297530 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12292703 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12292703 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12300947 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12300947 HN's moderation practice around this sort of thing is well established: once a major story has had a major thread, the test for new submissions becomes "does this article add significant new information?" If yes, then the post is a new story in its own right and it makes sense to have a new discussion. If not, we treat it as a repost and downweight it. We came up with this after the Great Snowden Flood of 2013, and it has held up well in practice. It allows for long-running stories to have repeated discussion while protecting the front page from being overwhelmed by follow-up posts that don't add anything new. The latter is important because major stories attract lots of copycat articles.
- 1812Overture 10y agoMaybe a feature to sticky a thread for a while is called for so major stories like this don't fall off too quickly?