news.ycombinator.com• Jan 30, 2026• 1 min read
Thoughts on ICElistI saw ICElist mentioned again today, so I thought I would try to access it again (it was initially overwhelmed with traffic).It is a mediawiki site (woo hoo!). BUT I wanted to see what actual information it contains and how I might be able to contribute from afar.I started with the Agent pages. There are 1574 Agents on the wiki as I type this and I randomly chose about a dozen to click on. Every single one has nothing except for a link to the person's LinkedIn profile where they presumably self identify. Fine, but hardly that interesting. Many agents do have unusual names that lend themselves to digging up more details online.The Incidents are more interesting. 377 of them with reasonable levels of details and description. And definitely a good thing to keep track of as they are easily forgotten/dismissed.The Unidentified pages are somewhat interesting as they contain photos of about 50 unidentified agents, but the information about incidents and even locations is incomplete. Some are