Unless they wrote it in Rust, in which case it would be received with great praise

Very funny...

But have you considered the countless lives that were lost due to bugs from memory-unsafe languages over the past ~70 years? A murder-for-hire app in Rust would still cost us less lives overall, if it increases the popularity and adoption of memory-safe languages elsewhere. It's a just cause, one could say.

I, for one, am very happy with how the assassination story of Rust is coming along!

Rust has rusted all of your brains. It really does what its name says!

I mean it makes sense. Memory safety >> Human Safety.

I think it would actually probably hit the top spot if it was a legitimate attempt that used crypto, E2E, provable security, maybe TOR. There's only one example in history AFAIK and it only lasted a short while. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_market

Depends, did they write the website in PHP?

People have a lot of sympathy here for Silk Road, which was in this business.

Silk road was primarily in the drug business not the murder for hire business. Drug deregulation is a pretty popular view at hn.