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1 hour ago thread is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14304088 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14304088 (Not sure why it's already down to 2nd

• doubt_me 9y ago
  Nobody cares about how corrupt the government is. Show me some more cool JavaScript products I'll never sign up for
• dang 9y ago
  HN doesn't run on upvotes alone; it's a constitutional democracy. The constitution is https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and this story is unconstitutional. If 500-point stories on hot topics were dispositive, HN would be a 500-point-stories-on-hot-topics site. It isn't that kind of site, and intervention is required to keep it from going that way. This is a clear case of 'if they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic', so it's worth dwelling on. It doesn't mean the story is unimportant (on the contrary), but that it doesn't fit the mandate of the site. Sometimes there are exceptions, and this isn't one. More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14306111 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14306111