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This is #1 on HackerNews? Why?

• Libturd 9y ago
  because this site is largely trash
• orf 9y ago
  Why not?
• Malic 9y ago
  Because being a hacker is about obsessively working to know all there is about a given subject and become better in a chosen craft. Bocuse was cooking hacker.
  • Malic 9y ago
    I forgot to mention - he was also a teacher of his craft and that counts too.
• bitwize 9y ago
  Because if any of us weren't foodies before Ratatouille, we sure became so after.
• ce4 9y ago
  Because he was one of the most renowned chefs. Cooking can be quite nerdy, scientific and of course entrepreneurial. Modernist Cuisine is from a former Microsoft [1] guy, for example. [1] http://modernistcuisine.com/ http://modernistcuisine.com/
• dang 9y ago
  It fits the criterion for being on topic: it gratifies intellectual curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html