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Not everyone has the luxury to ignore news and politics. Sometimes these events touch our lives in ways that a new release of the Rust compiler could never. (N
by robbyt 7y ago
Not everyone has the luxury to ignore news and politics. Sometimes these events touch our lives in ways that a new release of the Rust compiler could never.
(Not to pick on Rust, I love the language, but just an example)
I agree this site should not turn into Reddit, or Digg. What keeps HN great is the highly technical discussion around these topics. On mainstream articles like this I often skip reading the article, and go right to the HN comments to learn real info about the topic.
We have a community of some extremely smart people, let's not filter the articles posted, but instead harbor the intellectual conversation around the articles, because I think that's the real value of this site.
- acct1771 7y agoI agree with this, and will add: Not everyone will see every thread on a topic. Some may only see a TSA thread on HN once a month or quarter, if they're a light user. The repetition is indicative of the community's feeling a topic is important. And that's what people come here for. To see what this community thinks is important.