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The mystery of HN front page... a 2011 article from the Guardian about a known topic not related to technology.
by soyiuz 11y ago
The mystery of HN front page... a 2011 article from the Guardian about a known topic not related to technology.
- dannylandau 11y agoI for one enjoyed reading this story. Interesting that the story diverges from the movie that was recently made in which it is Spassky that wanted to move to a different location as a result of noise generated by the ventilation system
- dang 11y agoMay it always be thus.
- nsns 11y agoI've learned there's always a(n associative) trail of comments (sometimes from more than on thread) leading to such apparently random posts.
- sotojuan 11y agoMy understanding is that if it's in the front page, the community has decided it's interesting and a cool read, so no need to complain.
- eterm 11y agoSometimes that's true, sometimes it's just an uptick of submissions for the same url (multiple submissions count as upvotes) because it's popped up somewhere else such as reddit.
- jarcane 11y agoA famous wunderkind shunned by all because of his "politics" (read: flaming bigotry)? It's pretty much HN catnip.
- hyperpallium 11y agoI know HN seems like a technology news site - it even has "news" in its name! - but it's not. > anything that gratifies one's > intellectual curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html