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Is content that focuses on the same relatively small area of the United States over and over relevant to Hacker News at large? To anyone who isn't a Californian
by corndoge 10y ago
Is content that focuses on the same relatively small area of the United States over and over relevant to Hacker News at large? To anyone who isn't a Californian living in one of the SV cities (Palo Alto, San Francisco, Mountain View, etc) these kinds of stories are pretty irrelevant. Granted, a large portion of HN readers are probably in these cities, but does that give local politics a green light?
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.
- clock_tower 10y agoI'm inclined to say that it's on-topic. I've never been to SF or Silicon Valley, certainly never worked there, but it's the region that Hacker News and the startup world in general (the computing world in general?) is centered on; call it future-historical-interest as much as anything else.