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Nuclear weapons secrets exposed via flashcard apps article insta-dead?

37 pointsby lumpaalmost 4 years ago
There&#x27;s a bellingcat article that&#x27;s been submitted at least 15 times in the last 3 hours, going Dead each time. It&#x27;s titled &quot;US Soldiers Expose Nuclear Weapons Secrets Via Flashcard Apps&quot;[0] and seems totally within HN&#x27;s interest area. Also, other articles from the same site seem to have survived.<p>Is it a glitch? A new-ish ban? Keyword filtering to avoid getting on a list? Zealous users flagging the links?<p>[0] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bellingcat.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2021&#x2F;05&#x2F;28&#x2F;us-soldiers-expose-nuclear-weapons-secrets-via-flashcard-apps&#x2F;<p>ETA: someone vouched for the most recent posting at the time, https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27317946 , but it&#x27;s still strange how we got to 15 dead entries in 3 hours.

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hfjgltkrlrmalmost 4 years ago
&gt; Q: what are the authenticators on the Restricted Area Badge?<p>&gt; A: VOLKEL is missing the first L<p>I find this funny, the badges have typos on purpose.<p>The funniest thing is that I googled &quot;restricted area badge&quot; to read more about what they are, and the second result on google is a link to these flash cards. Article says they were all removed, so not sure what this means.
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aww_dangalmost 4 years ago
Look at the submissions from that domain. A large amount are marked as [dead]. I would assume the filter is by domain name. I&#x27;ve seen similar activity with other domain names.<p>I&#x27;m not familiar with this site, so I can&#x27;t guess as to why.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;from?site=bellingcat.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;from?site=bellingcat.com</a>
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ChrisArchitectalmost 4 years ago
what does that mean &#x27;going dead&#x27;? like you even said, other articles from &#x27;bellingcat&#x27; seem fine, so just wait for it to be upvoted if it&#x27;s actually interesting
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