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Disappointing how HN seems to have gone all-in on being a “mental floss” site.
by cylinder 9y ago
Disappointing how HN seems to have gone all-in on being a “mental floss” site.
- icebraining 9y agoIt always had some tendency for that; pg's own submissions could in part be classified as such: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=pg https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=pg
- magic_beans 9y agoDid you actually read the article? It's written beautifully, and includes what looks like a delicious recipe. I myself never realized the similarities between Chinese and Eastern European dumplings, but there is a fair amount of overlap, especially with regards to soup dumplings! HN sourpusses could use a bit of home cooking -- a juicy dumpling full of pork belly and butter would lighten any mood!
- dang 9y agoToday does have a couple more outliers than usual but if you look back at previous front pages at archive.org, you'll see it hasn't changed all that much. Five years ago today there was an article on Stonehenge, a Kickstarter for a feature film, and a "my best life hack" piece: https://web.archive.org/web/20130425093132/https://news.ycombinator.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20130425093132/https://news.ycom... It's part of the mandate of HN to cover an assortment of everything, not just tech and startups, so long as it gratifies intellectual curiosity (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). That's one of the best things about HN, in my view, so I hope it doesn't change. Can dumplings gratify intellectual curiosity? Of course they can!