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> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or
by TrickyRick 9y ago
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. [1]
Is it just me or is this blatantly off-topic? Or is anything major happening in the bay area automatically on-topic for Hacker News?
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- mikeash 9y agoAviation safety is a common recurring topic here. I don't think the fact that this happened at SFO is related.
- rkuykendall-com 9y agoThere's something about air traffic that is very HackerNews. Search for "air traffic" to see what I mean. Maybe it's something about coordinating big complex systems, or maybe radio chatter is nerdy, I don't know, but it does make sense to me.
- TrickyRick 9y agoMaybe that's it then, still find it odd how the news that something almost happened is related to HN. I would understand it if the investigation showed a system failure or something similar.