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*Tucker Carlson's nuclear attack warning
*Tucker Carlson claims
Re:Proton Subreddit, Community-Moderated on Sunday November 01, 2026 @01:33PM (#50328294)
There was a good post on /r/SubredditDrama/ today about this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1xl48fx/do_...

In case you didn't see the video of collapse at the time (don't miss the drone footage which starts at 0:55):

>Watch the Arecibo Observatory's catastrophic collapse!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u34uwFOCM-4

Also [flagged] previous discussion:

>Brazil's Flavio Bolsonaro headed to US, sources say

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50262942

>ninabyzantina.com

>Nina Kouprianova aka Nina Koupriianova aka Nina Byzantina is a pro-Russia propagandist living in Montana.

https://keywiki.org/Nina_Kouprianova

>Watts Up With That? (WUWT) is a blog promoting climate change denial

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_Up_With_That%3F

Re:Ask HN: What's a good RSS feed reader? on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @01:59PM (#50185027)
I like Inoreader - lots of features, somewhat similar to defunct Google Reader.
News story from Oct 9, they hit 3rd since then:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50040547

*Sudden drop in Cloudflare bot traffic from AS13238 YANDEX — Yandex LLC

UPD Definition of bot traffic from Cloudflare's glossary:

>Bot vs. human traffic

>The percentage of HTTP requests classified as bot versus human, based on bot scores. Requests with a bot score between 1 and 29 are classified as likely automated (bot), while requests with a score of 30 or above are classified as likely human. For more information, refer to Bot classes.

>By default, Radar shows bot vs. human traffic for requests to HTML content. This filter is meant to represent traditional web traffic by excluding API calls, asset requests (images, scripts, fonts), and other machine-to-machine requests.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/radar/glossary/#bot-vs-hum...

https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/concepts/bot-score/

Re:3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit on Sunday October 11, 2026 @06:23AM (#50041602)
BBC story linked to this chart which is pretty interesting:

>Internet Connectivity for AS200350 (YandexCloud)

https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/asn/200350?from=1791331...

Re:Terrence Tao does not understand cancer medicine on Sunday October 11, 2026 @01:10AM (#50039989)
>In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Prasad used social media to promulgate misinformation and take a contrarian stance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinay_Prasad#COVID_response

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50008565 (223 comments)
Re:No One Lives Forever decompiled source code on Saturday October 10, 2026 @11:26AM (#50033870)
Related discussion:

>The Sad Story Behind A Dead PC Game That Can’t Come Back

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10710973 (2015)

Re:Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours on Friday October 09, 2026 @10:40AM (#50021193)
One of the sources:

>Scottish independence accounts go dark after Iran internet blackout

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/01/12/scottish-ind...

Re:Mosquitoes Are a Choice on Monday October 05, 2026 @02:35PM (#49968678)
Don't be fixated on the "tube" thing; it's at the rumour-level certainty at this point (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49960955).

On the other hand "Baikal People" post from today is more worrying, as it says they quarantined 4 hospitals for 3 weeks: https://t.me/Baikal_People/16651

Man, you started an off-topic subthread which, at the moment, contains 100 out of the 165 total comments.
>The article we’re discussing says the woman who died told colleagues she broke a test tube.

The article links to a telegram post [1] as source, which links to another telegram post [2], which now has an update:

>It is not known exactly how Darya Shipilova contracted the plague. Currently, the theory involving a broken test tube is the leading one, but there is no official confirmation or independent verification of this information.

(Google-translated)

[1] https://t.me/Govorit_NeMoskva/70406

[2] https://t.me/Baikal_People/16629

>Oct. 2

Here's a newer CNN story from today:

>Researcher at Russian plague laboratory dies of ‘unknown’ infection

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/10/04/europe/russia-laboratory-...

This post from local Irkutsk region media (now in exile) is also interesting:

https://t.me/Baikal_People/16651 (in Russian)

Re:Ask HN: Favorite TV Show? on Sunday October 04, 2026 @12:14PM (#49955194)
Twin Peaks

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