This is hybrid warfare, not a coincidence.

Russia needs to learn some manners, the hard way.

Does that count as "major" now?

Emergency service lines go down somewhere in the world almost every day. Often for longer than that.

HN didn't used to be a place for people who like to gin up conspiracies, and engage in speculative hyperbole.

Other social media networks may tolerate this but this is not HN worthy.

The parent's concern is with the "could" in your sentence.

Unlike other web sites, the people of HN used to pride themselves on presenting facts, not speculation. Rumors were left for places like Facebook and now Reddit.

  Starlink VP of engineering Michael Nicolls tweeted that the service has "now mostly recovered from the network outage" after two and a half hours.

  "The outage was due to failure of key internal software services that operate the core network. We apologize for the temporary disruption in our service; we are deeply committed to providing a highly reliable network, and will fully root cause this issue and ensure it does not occur again," the tweet, posted at 3:23 p.m. PT, says.

Edit: funny, can't even access the replies..

And of course, they have to downvote to hell. They need to keep the illusion that the US is still the most powerful military, the most powerful economy, and that AI will save their hegemony.

Really sad.

What is the illusion is that a powerful military is enough to win a conflict.

If anyone has benefited humanity over the last couple of decades, it's Elon Musk! I'd argue he's done more than anyone!