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IIRC when the other Malaysian Airlines plane went missing that went up on HN, and that was before all the 'hacker friendly' tracking technique stories.
by robhu 12y ago
IIRC when the other Malaysian Airlines plane went missing that went up on HN, and that was before all the 'hacker friendly' tracking technique stories.
- davidw 12y agoPeople are unfortunately probably going to post stuff like this, guidelines or not. It gets flagged and or moderated down pretty quickly in most cases, though.
- danieldk 12y agoWhy unfortunately? In such cases, HN usually provides a lot of insightful technical comments. If a mainstream news item considers technology or failures thereof, I don't see why it doesn't belong on HN.
- robhu 12y agoThis article has been knocked off the front page again :( The prior article was also administratively removed from the front page, even though it had a really high score https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8049813 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8049813
- snowwrestler 12y agoA modern airliner (seemingly) disappearing without a trace is interesting, even from a technology perspective. A modern airliner getting shot down by a SAM is fairly boring from a tech perspective. Sadly it's not even a particularly unique occurence over the past few decades.