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Um Why is this hacker news?

• Sandman 16y ago
  I agree with you. I guess you're being downvoted because, according to the guidelines, a proper thing to do when you feel that an article isn't HN material is flagging it, not commenting that it shouldn't be on HN.
  • points 16y ago
    I was wondering if I'd missed something in the article, but I guess not.
  • yters 16y ago
    One way to learn from the repeated "why is this HN?" is to explain, nothing helps us learn like teaching.
• noahlt 16y ago
  It's interesting to many of us here who are interested in building online communities. If a person happened to walk by this man's funeral, they probably wouldn't shout that he was "better off dead". But a person who happens to see this man's obituary online apparently has no qualms about the online equivalent. As hackers, we build things that are used, ultimately, by fellow human beings. Those things we build can have unintended consequences. This story highlights that fact.