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Out of curiosity... why is this on Hacker News?

by criley2 10y ago

tempestn 10y ago
Same reason as always. Because it is news, and of interest to many people who visit this site.
Practicality 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html This fits "Anything that good hackers would find interesting." "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." Major world events are pretty much always on topic. We just don't need minor regular news events here.
- mbesto 10y ago
  > "Anything that good hackers would find interesting." "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." So that can literally be anything... > If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. This caveats it nicely. This is certainly off-topic for HN.
  - mynameisvlad 10y ago
    > probably off-topic Probably !== certainly. The only people who can really speak to something being certainly off-topic are the moderators.
    - flukus 10y ago
      Javascript or PHP?
      - mynameisvlad 10y ago
        Heh, didn't even realize it, but JS (well, Typescript.)
- criley2 10y ago
  "Major world events are pretty much always on topic. We just don't need minor regular news events here." Sure, it fits, but HN is a notoriously inferior general news site. If you heard about this first here, you're ill informed. If this was your only source for this news, you're VERY ill informed. It's a shame, HN first descended into being basically just a Reddit Subreddit hosted on a differently URL, and is now morphing into reddit.com/r/reddit.com (the anything-goes general reddit subreddit) with a slightly more technical audience. Considering that the most useful link/comment in this thread is a link to a vastly superior, just incomparably more useful and informing reddit link, I think the point is made quite nicely. Oh well, I guess HN is a wrapper around Reddit these days.
Nadya 10y ago
Some of us live/work in Japan.
- glandium 10y ago
  And if you are in a zone that needs to be concerned about it, you'll already have been made aware of it by more direct means than reading HN. Edit: I live in Japan. I don't rely on HN for earthquake news.
  - Nadya 10y ago
    I don't - but I have friends who do. I found out about the earthquake through HN and was able to contact my friends and see if they were safe. I'm aware of the warning sirens. I spent a non-significant amount of time near the cost. You also don't need the news to tell you that you just felt a large earthquake, get to high ground.
- elihu 10y ago
  ..and for those that don't, probably a large majority of Hacker News readers live in an earthquake-prone region and worry about whether they're prepared for the next time a significant earthquake is going to happen to them.
huangc10 10y ago
Hacker news is a global community and this affects developers and enthusiasts in Japan which may directly or indirectly affect everyone in this community.
chefandy 10y ago
srsly, do the Japanese even technology?

Out of curiosity... why is this on Hacker News?

by criley2 10y ago

Out of curiosity... why is this on Hacker News?

tempestn 10y ago

Same reason as always. Because it is news, and of interest to many people who visit this site.

Practicality 10y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html This fits "Anything that good hackers would find interesting." "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." Major world events are pretty much always on topic. We just don't need minor regular news events here.

mbesto 10y ago
> "Anything that good hackers would find interesting." "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." So that can literally be anything... > If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. This caveats it nicely. This is certainly off-topic for HN.
- mynameisvlad 10y ago
  > probably off-topic Probably !== certainly. The only people who can really speak to something being certainly off-topic are the moderators.
  - flukus 10y ago
    Javascript or PHP?
    - mynameisvlad 10y ago
      Heh, didn't even realize it, but JS (well, Typescript.)
criley2 10y ago
"Major world events are pretty much always on topic. We just don't need minor regular news events here." Sure, it fits, but HN is a notoriously inferior general news site. If you heard about this first here, you're ill informed. If this was your only source for this news, you're VERY ill informed. It's a shame, HN first descended into being basically just a Reddit Subreddit hosted on a differently URL, and is now morphing into reddit.com/r/reddit.com (the anything-goes general reddit subreddit) with a slightly more technical audience. Considering that the most useful link/comment in this thread is a link to a vastly superior, just incomparably more useful and informing reddit link, I think the point is made quite nicely. Oh well, I guess HN is a wrapper around Reddit these days.

Nadya 10y ago

Some of us live/work in Japan.

glandium 10y ago
And if you are in a zone that needs to be concerned about it, you'll already have been made aware of it by more direct means than reading HN. Edit: I live in Japan. I don't rely on HN for earthquake news.
- Nadya 10y ago
  I don't - but I have friends who do. I found out about the earthquake through HN and was able to contact my friends and see if they were safe. I'm aware of the warning sirens. I spent a non-significant amount of time near the cost. You also don't need the news to tell you that you just felt a large earthquake, get to high ground.
elihu 10y ago
..and for those that don't, probably a large majority of Hacker News readers live in an earthquake-prone region and worry about whether they're prepared for the next time a significant earthquake is going to happen to them.

huangc10 10y ago

Hacker news is a global community and this affects developers and enthusiasts in Japan which may directly or indirectly affect everyone in this community.

chefandy 10y ago

srsly, do the Japanese even technology?