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Ask HN: What will HN look like after the apocalypse?
Assume the world electrical grid is mostly down, but some pockets of grid and internet connectivity remain. Although many regular services are spotty if online at all: gas, water, oil, freight, government.
In this scenario, what would we be seeing on HN? What sorts of stories, comments and posts?
- gt565k 4y agoAds for guns and ammo and articles on diy such as: make your own gun, water purifier, etc. If essential services and utilities collapse as well as govt functions, you’re talking about a mass panic, looting, and just pure chaos as every family fends for itself. Most likely, there would be no HN.
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- tamaharbor 4y agoLikely there will still be anti-Musk articles.
- gadders 4y agoUnless there is a new target for the two minutes hate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Minutes_Hate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Minutes_Hate
- warrenm 4y agowhat makes you think HN would be one of the "pockets of grid and internet connectivity" remaining? If it were, why would you be wasting your time on it instead of trying to survive?
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- muzani 4y agoIt's self hosted, so it seems all or nothing. Interestingly, you could large portions of AWS and a lot of the data would still be up. > If it were, why would you be wasting your time on it instead of trying to survive? Implying we're not already trying to survive. Most of the time I've spent procrastinating is during the hardest times, and honestly I've been here much less when times are good. How many view HN on vacation?
- ipaddr 4y agoHN can't survive a cloudflare outage
- peteradio 4y agoAsk HN: What do you think of my DIY lighter? top comment: Explain what this does that flint and steel cannot.
- the_only_law 4y ago“But how will it make money“
- iExploder 4y agoShow HN: I rewrote my gatling gun turret code in Rust and got eaten by zombies while I was waiting for it to compile
- joezydeco 4y agoFlexport: Now hiring zombies
- labarilem 4y agoI guess mostly DIY for survival and (un)dead startups looking for brains.
- BWStearns 4y ago• Could VC be a casualty of the Zombie apocalypse? (paulgraham.com) • Rewriting Skynet in Rust (fasterthanli.me) • Cyberdyne Insider says Terminators are Sentient (futurism.com) • Really Sharp Stick Unveiled: New Russian Superweapon Against Alien Menace (businessinsider.com)
- muzani 4y agoWe've seen a few crises here - COVID, Ukraine war. Most of the time HN goes into full panic, more so than people on most other social media sites. And then it quiets down and we go back to talking about burnout. I think it's because the people here are mostly comfortable upper middle class planning for retirement. Most humans are trying to have enough to survive the next month. A delivery driver once said the odds of dying and long term injury from a motorcycle accident were much higher than dying to COVID. Someone in Ukraine here said similar about the odds of dying to a missile or drone attack. But the odds of dying without a job is pretty damn high so they do their dangerous jobs nonetheless. Blue collars tend to be less affected. White collars, however, tend to have a 35 year plan and there's all kinds of black swan events that can mess up that plan. People go into lockdowns with more grief than losing a parent.
- matthewwolfe 4y agoThere will still be one holdout complaining about Stripe’s lack of customer support.
- pvaldes 4y agoYear of Linux in the dust teepee. And a lot of articles about DIY robokillers.