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So someone writes a random story with no clear point (maybe some vague societal critique or perhaps just rambling nonsense), and it ends up on Hacker News?
by t0mbstone 9y ago
So someone writes a random story with no clear point (maybe some vague societal critique or perhaps just rambling nonsense), and it ends up on Hacker News?
- cholantesh 9y agoYou seem to be assuming that fiction requires a single underlying meaning and that this meaning must be readily discernible.
- t0mbstone 9y agoNo... What I'm assuming is that articles posted on Hacker News should be "news" for "hackers". This assumption is based on my interpretation of the name of the site. If we are just going to post random short stories or things that hackers (as generic people) find interesting, you might as well post anything - cat pictures, the weather, political things. If that's the approach people are going to take when they post things here, it would cease to be a useful site that I would wish to frequent.