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This story is at 1 and 2 on both reddit and Hacker News. Why is this so interesting?

by sakri 11y ago

coldtea 11y ago
Because it's a person making something, authority denying him that for stupid reasons, etc. It has all the elements of something that appeals to hackers (in the "maker" sense). But seriously, if you have to ask you will never know. This is more of a "you get it or not" thing, related to how HN's targeted demographic feels on such issues.
- sakri 11y ago
  I'm not a banker or a lawyer, I get the story bro, I just don't recall ever seeing a story reach 1&2 in both places at the same time. I would maybe expect the discovery of extra terrestrial life to get that kind of fascination.
teach 11y ago
I don't understand it either. One-off events in the world don't really interest me. I believe that on any given day in the US, some public school administrator does something stupid where a student is involved. And also the majority of public school administrators are very competent and handle similar situations without blowing things out of proportion. There's no evidence of a trend. This isn't a sign of a shift in culture or of the impending [DOOMSDAY SCENARIO]. I just ignore the headline and move on.
TallGuyShort 11y ago
Many of us were the nerdy kid in school at his age, and we got bullied by people because of it. That fact that he's being bullied by his school administration and the police is just disgusting.
venomsnake 11y ago
Because every hacker on hacker news has done stupid shit with science and technology. And the majority of us got away with it. When a kid is brutally harassed over double nothing, we can both link with him AND cry for the experimental culture that is dying the death of a thousand cuts.
mikeash 11y ago
Many, probably most, of us can imagine ourselves in this kid's shoes. Personally, I was punished repeatedly in high school for things I didn't do, simply because the administration was extremely paranoid about my computer knowledge. The principal once threatened me with "blacklisting" (seriously) because they got infected with a virus and didn't know what was going on. A lot of people in the tech community have similar stories. We tend to stick out in the wrong way while in high school. What's really worrying is that when I was his age, it was just the school I had to worry about. I was sometimes harassed and threatened (and to be fair, encouraged in a lot of things) by the administration while at school, but that's where it ended. Now they're getting the whole system involved.

This story is at 1 and 2 on both reddit and Hacker News. Why is this so interesting?

by sakri 11y ago

This story is at 1 and 2 on both reddit and Hacker News. Why is this so interesting?

Because it's a person making something, authority denying him that for stupid reasons, etc. It has all the elements of something that appeals to hackers (in the "maker" sense). But seriously, if you have to ask you will never know. This is more of a "you get it or not" thing, related to how HN's targeted demographic feels on such issues.

sakri 11y ago
I'm not a banker or a lawyer, I get the story bro, I just don't recall ever seeing a story reach 1&2 in both places at the same time. I would maybe expect the discovery of extra terrestrial life to get that kind of fascination.

teach 11y ago

I don't understand it either. One-off events in the world don't really interest me. I believe that on any given day in the US, some public school administrator does something stupid where a student is involved. And also the majority of public school administrators are very competent and handle similar situations without blowing things out of proportion. There's no evidence of a trend. This isn't a sign of a shift in culture or of the impending [DOOMSDAY SCENARIO]. I just ignore the headline and move on.

TallGuyShort 11y ago

Many of us were the nerdy kid in school at his age, and we got bullied by people because of it. That fact that he's being bullied by his school administration and the police is just disgusting.

venomsnake 11y ago

Because every hacker on hacker news has done stupid shit with science and technology. And the majority of us got away with it. When a kid is brutally harassed over double nothing, we can both link with him AND cry for the experimental culture that is dying the death of a thousand cuts.

mikeash 11y ago

Many, probably most, of us can imagine ourselves in this kid's shoes. Personally, I was punished repeatedly in high school for things I didn't do, simply because the administration was extremely paranoid about my computer knowledge. The principal once threatened me with "blacklisting" (seriously) because they got infected with a virus and didn't know what was going on. A lot of people in the tech community have similar stories. We tend to stick out in the wrong way while in high school. What's really worrying is that when I was his age, it was just the school I had to worry about. I was sometimes harassed and threatened (and to be fair, encouraged in a lot of things) by the administration while at school, but that's where it ended. Now they're getting the whole system involved.