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Why is this post even here? Isn't hn about technology? How is the news of a murder even remotely tech related? Quality of posts on hn is falling these days.
by hi41 9y ago
Why is this post even here? Isn't hn about technology? How is the news of a murder even remotely tech related? Quality of posts on hn is falling these days.
- detaro 9y ago> Isn't hn about technology? No. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html This story nevertheless doesn't really qualify as on-topic, but I assume this story is getting picked up here because it's a follow up to the initial story, which people found interesting due to the involvement of a DIY sub, rocketry groups, ...
- gotrecruit 9y agoif Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos killed someone, you don't think it'll be news on here?
- danso 9y agoYes it would be but how are they particularly related to Madden? Musk and Bezos aren’t just inventors, they are CEOs and highly successful inventors whose companies have an ongoing and huge influence on HN’s world. Madsen is not particularly well known as an inventor — certainly his achievements in morbid crime have made him more famous than his submarine.
- daxorid 9y agoSame reason the murder of Hans Reiser's wife was noteworthy: because we like to think that one of "our own" is incapable of it, and we gawk like an OJ Simpson fan when shown otherwise.
- coldtea 9y ago>Isn't hn about technology? No. Perhaps you haven't read the guidelines... On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.