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A plane full of people vanished with no sign of wreckage nor anything to go on with tens of thousands of kilometres of possible search area. I'd say this is def

A plane full of people vanished with no sign of wreckage nor anything to go on with tens of thousands of kilometres of possible search area. I'd say this is definitely "Hacker News worthy".

javajosh 13y ago
Actually, it's not even newsworthy. This is very similar to the live coverage of car chases that have no real news value - it is sensationalist journalism at it's worst. There are much bigger problems in the world. Heck, car accidents killed far more people in the US alone since this story began than were on that plane (30k/year means 82/day). And this is ignoring new revelations about technology companies being complicit in NSA spying - which is very Hacker News worthy. The Crimean crisis is a good example of a news-worthy story that is absolutely not Hacker News-worthy.
- mr_spothawk 13y ago
  Yeah... and dropping bombs from robot airplanes is still a thing. I'm sorry for a lot of people who are missing their traveling loved ones, but this missing plane thing seems like a crazy distraction.
- Houshalter 13y ago
  It's interesting. 99% of the things on hacker news are insignificant and have little impact on the world. No one is saying that this plane is significant.
- caf 13y ago
  There's a very real chance that over 200 people were murdered in a single event - if that's not newsworthy anymore then that's a pretty fucking sad indictment of the state of the world.
- Sarkie 13y ago
  Well I've been downvoted but this is what I'm talking about. I am interested in this, I'm interesting in the technology, crowdsourcing and stuff to find the plane. All I got was a jpg link to a person's dropbox, with no information about today's finding / sighting as opposed to yesterday's. Just a picture of a blob.