Reports of widespread power cuts in Spain and Portugal
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·April 28, 2025redbell
The fact this event is trending in four different posts all are currently in the front page of HN says a lot! Hope moderators combines them all under one unified thread. See also:
There are reports of widespread power cuts in Spain and Portugal (bbc.co.uk): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43820163
Spain, Portugal and parts of France hit by power outage (euronews.com): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43820177
Nationwide Power Outages Also Disrupt Internet Traffic in Portugal and Spain (twitter.com/cloudflareradar): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43819914
perihelions
You missed the biggest one,
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43819791 (123 comments)
(I've emailed the mods to ask them to merge)
dist-epoch
Because it's not on the front page, despite the large number of up-votes and comments.
A tactic I've seen to "disappear" articles is to flag and then immediatly unflag them.
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throwanem
Oh, for God's sake. Unflagging was added because sometimes people hit "flag" by mistake, and I know that because I was one of the ones who asked for it. (Well, the "flagged" list on your profile page was so added. Unflagging I assume has existed about since flagging, but if you accidentally flagged from the homepage, that could not be undone until lately as I describe, because it would also hide the flagged story. Excuse me, I am as yet pre-coffee.)
I'm similarly familiar enough with the lead HN dev, with whom I have passed a friendly discussion or two of how some site features are implemented, to be quite sure unflagging reverses whatever specific moderation weighting flagging applies.
Do you have any specific knowledge to substantiate the claim you have made here?
libertine
How isn't this addressed? Hopefully this major event gets that fixed.
DamonHD
This item was flagged and I vouched for it when it was half-way down the new page, and it seems to have done OK. The monstorous secret cabal has failed again.
ksec
I dont think there were any on the front page when I submitted it. ( May be they weren't upvoted ) Because I thought such big news someone should have done it before me.
Calwestjobs
there are many pro russian trolls in other posts so maybe keep only this one lol.
commiepatrol
You tell them, anyone I disagree with is a pro-Russian troll!
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gjvc
[flagged]
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43819791