Hacker News Reader

Cool project, thanks! A bit nitpicking:

> In Europe, Poland, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia, Kaliningrad, and Finland sometimes show presumed jamming activity, depending on how active Russia is.

The wording here is confusing, it seems to imply that Kaliningrad is a country, which it is not (it's a Russian exclave, as the author mentions in one of the HN comments).

View on HN

Would it sound similar like saying hurricane about to hit Cuba, Florida and Dominican Republic. This does not imply that Florida is a country is just more precise location definition than saying USA. Same here with Kaliningrad as part of Russia.

Florida is a state, Kaliningrad isn't even an autonomous oblast.

It kinda is oblast : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaliningrad_Oblast

Yes, but oblast has the smallest amount of autonomy. It's like a county in the GB or the US.

Traditionally, raion is a county-level subdivision, though these are now superceded by settlements (communes).

Oblast' is a top-level federation subject, comprised of these. Its's true that they are usually smaller and less authonomous than U. S. states.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com