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Well for the NSA it could be related to the most recent news (maybe its a DDOS by the Germans?!), thus its 'breaking news' about a hot story a lot of HN readers
by wavesounds 13y ago
Well for the NSA it could be related to the most recent news (maybe its a DDOS by the Germans?!), thus its 'breaking news' about a hot story a lot of HN readers are interested in.
For the other sites, its very rare they go down and its the best and brightest working to keep them up so if they went down the reason why is probably something that would interest the whole community.
- migrantgeek 13y ago"maybe its a DDOS by the Germans?!" That would be newsworthy however no evidence of this was presented. It was simply "this thing is down now". If a large site goes down, I would like to know what happened. I'd be interested to learn from the mistakes of others. This isn't the case with this posting or others like it. Posts of this ilk rarely have any more information than I could have received from a curl command.
- wavesounds 13y agoI get your point but perhaps theres a sys admin monitoring a DNS server somewhere and realizes theres a bunch of unusual traffic then on his break he checks HN and realizes the NSA site is down, he then does a little investigation and wolla he connects the dots and has something he can teach the rest of us. It's collective intelligence if you will :-)