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It's wild to me that this is at the top of Hacker News, but not even on the Google News front page. I feel like major airline crashes are usually headlines.
by bsimpson 2y ago
It's wild to me that this is at the top of Hacker News, but not even on the Google News front page.
I feel like major airline crashes are usually headlines.
- umeshunni 2y ago[flagged]
- areyourllySorry 2y ago[flagged]
- dang 2y agoCould you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
- umeshunni 2y ago/Ack
- tensor 2y agoIt’s on all the news sites in Canada.
- walthamstow 2y agoHN has a particular fascination with aviation disasters. No disrespect at all, I've learnt more about aviation here than anywhere else. Before I came here I just assumed the whole thing to be magic.
- windowshopping 2y agoWhy would that be "disrespectful"?
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- walthamstow 2y agoIt could be read as calling people here rubberneckers, which is not exactly a compliment
- kortilla 2y agoThe interest doesn’t come from wanting to see random destruction like rubberneckers do. Commercial passenger aviation is as safe as it gets and incidents require multiple things to go wrong. An aviation disaster is a fascinating thing because it pushes forward safety protocols or engineering safeguards. There is nothing interesting about a car that smashes into a guardrail, which is what rubberneckers are into.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- belorn 2y agoAn other aspect of aviation disasters that is much more interesting than other disasters is that aviation has had a long history of using a different approach when it comes to investigation and human factors. Even the language we use, like "pilot error" is deeply connected to aviation disaster history, which get applied in many more areas than just aviation.
- nostromo 2y agoGoogle News is pretty awful nowadays. I feel like Google stopped caring about it years ago.
- TimByte 2y agoAn algorithmic fluff than actual news
- xarope 2y agoI think there's a fascination in the amount of hardware and software engineering that goes into making a bunch of metal tubes and curves that weight 100,000+ lbs able to fly at 30,000 ft for hours. And we get very upset/interested when these things fail.
- jameslk 2y ago> I feel like major airline crashes are usually headlines. The problem is everyone seems to have survived
- saalweachter 2y agoAlso, not in the United States.
- bsimpson 2y agoDelta flight from Minnesota
- TimByte 2y agoYeah, that's surprising... And I think this feels like something people would want to know about
- Febra33 2y ago[flagged]
- marcusverus 2y agoWhat to Submit: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. [0]https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- hiccuphippo 2y agoSadly, the lack of morbidity because there's no dead people makes it not top news elsewhere.
- Levitz 2y ago>I feel like major airline crashes are usually headlines. Not really, how many of these accidents from last year do you recognize? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_commercial_aircraft#2024 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incident... It gets all over the news when a whole lot of people die, for evident reasons.
- rs186 2y agoLikely because there was no casualty, which doesn't really make headlines. On the other hand, the concentration of people who are interested in planes/flights are definitely higher on HN than something as generic as Google news
- hmmm-i-wonder 2y agoGoogle news stopped linking/showing Canadian news sites after some law was passed around financial compensation.