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Ask HN: Why HN is so quiet about those gun shootings in the weekend?
- minimaxir 7y agoThe shootings themselves are off-topic for HN; however articles discussing the tech related to the shootings appears to get flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20608584 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20608584
- dang 7y agoThat one was probably flagged because there was a large discussion about the topic just the day before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20604595 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20604595
- burfog 7y agoWhat is there to say? It's kind of off-topic for Hacker News. If you want an article though, here you go: https://archive.is/NBgoi https://archive.is/NBgoi
- masonic 7y agoThere are 40 homicides a month in Chicago; they get even less media attention: https://graphics.suntimes.com/homicides/ https://graphics.suntimes.com/homicides/
- ksaj 7y agoNeil Degrasse Tyson is catching quite a bit of flack for pointing out such things. I do believe his point is that we obsessively turn specific events into front page news, while completely ignoring / normalizing other more common tragic numbers. Maybe if we dwelled equally on human excellence, we'd see a sudden rise in front page excellence.
- ksaj 7y agoProbably the only part relevant to HN is what happened with 8chan and statements from its founder. And that's already contained in other posts.