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Why is this on Hacker News?
by ArchReaper 9y ago
Why is this on Hacker News?
- stronglikedan 9y agoBecause someone submitted it.
- call_me_k 9y agolol I see what you did :)
- speakeron 9y agoOne of the definitions of hack is "cut with rough or heavy blows".
- novium 9y agoAlso, "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" is on-topic here. I'd qualify this as that, especially since the philosophical discussion in a thread further up.
- golemotron 9y agoBefore clicking I expected the link to be about a data structure.
- xeromal 9y agoditto. Haha. It was a good read though.
- kreetx 9y ago.. and someone else thought hacker news was about the lumber industry. Seriously though, even though not related, this was a good article. I guess it goes without saying that if you care about something then don't obsess over it publicly too much, since the ruiners /will/ come.
- cpeterso 9y agoNow we know what the "B" in B-tree stands for! ;) Wikipedia has a section on the etymology of the B-tree name. One of the original inventors says "B" stands for "Boeing", "Bayer" (another inventor), and "balanced". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-tree#Etymology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-tree#Etymology
- grb423 9y agoHaha... me too. I'm like "RIP?? I have never even heard of a broccoli tree!"
- nolok 9y agoWhy not? If it wasn't interesting people wouldn't have up voted it. We each have our own interests.
- cestith 9y agoIt's on Hacker News not because of the tree itself. It's on Hacker News because the Internet coverage of the tree is what made it notable enough to vandalize. Many of us build the tools of an online society. We live largely within that online society, but not exclusively. Why wouldn't we care about the acts carried out offline being influenced by our activities online?
- djrogers 9y ago> because the Internet coverage of the tree is what made it notable enough to vandalize. Interesting speculation, but trees have been vandalized for centuries...
- cestith 9y agoThat's true, but the article was about a particular tree, a famous tree, that was famous from online exposure. There's plausible speculation that this fame is why it was vandalized, but that speculation was made in the article. It doesn't require speculation about that vandalism on my part to reason about why that makes the story quite fit for HN.
- mustacheemperor 9y agoWhy do people insist on using this line to criticize the relevance of submissions to the community? You're presumably arguing submissions like this degrade the quality of discussion, but won't submit any reason it isn't relevant to the board. If all you're looking to do is shit in the punchbowl there's other boards for that, and if you think it's completely and blatantly obvious the submission is unsuitable there's a "flag" button available to call a discussion to the attention of the moderators. My 2 cents, I believe it belongs here because the question of whether social media is a net benefit to society is frequently debated here, and this article uses the tree as an example to argue that it is a net negative. There's some interesting discussion in this thread about attention-seeking vandalism in the context of the internet.