> many posts on HN about facebook are not even from within the last few months. some of them are from several years ago HN is just for "breaking news." It has

> many posts on HN about facebook are not even from within the last few months. some of them are from several years ago HN is just for "breaking news." It has an established culture of re-posting "old" stories if they're interesting or informative in the context of more recent events.