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I hate to make a meta-comment, but what in the world does this stuff have to do with Hacker News? I continually see people complaining about newsworthy but non-
by nkohari 17y ago
I hate to make a meta-comment, but what in the world does this stuff have to do with Hacker News? I continually see people complaining about newsworthy but non-technical articles being posted, and yet hundreds of comments on these posts. Is the HN community really that sex-starved?
- rglullis 17y agoHere we go... On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
- davidw 17y agoWhat's "intellectual" about the article? Also, how do we know that it's "good hackers" voting this stuff up? That little clause is a wormhole to the redditverse, as people use it to justify pretty much anything. A much more fun game is "7 degrees of hacker news", where you try and create the most tenuous link possible to defend the "HN worthiness" of an article. Like saying that "Well, this is about hacking, because, see, they had restrictions, and they learned to hack around them! See!" I'm sure others can do better. (Not that it's a bad article, of course... it's just not something I'd consider germane)
- kylemathews 17y agoSeriously. I don't come to Hacker News to read about sex.
- SandB0x 17y agoI'm sure it'll blow over in a day or so, plus a break from "N Ways to X your Y with Clojure" every now and then isn't harmful. I think psychology and sociology are interesting to everyone.
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