This isn't a huge story, but IMHO, people living week-to-week not being able to get their child tax credit and buying food kinds trumps "people couldn't post what they had for lunch for 2 hours".
The HN discussion about the Twitter story was "twitter doesn't lose any money when they're down for 2 hours, so full uptime isn't essential". So what happens when a bank's wire transfer and debit card infrastructure is down for a day or more? Could they afford the fix that would prevent it? Will they publish a report on what went wrong and how they'll prevent it in the future? Seems much more interesting to me...
It's not about how something affects the world. It's about how it affect my, and my perspective of my world. Human's are not very good at paying attention at things that do not directly affect them. Those who are the exception to this, are the minority I believe.
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 17.3 ms ] threadThe HN discussion about the Twitter story was "twitter doesn't lose any money when they're down for 2 hours, so full uptime isn't essential". So what happens when a bank's wire transfer and debit card infrastructure is down for a day or more? Could they afford the fix that would prevent it? Will they publish a report on what went wrong and how they'll prevent it in the future? Seems much more interesting to me...