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Not to be a killjoy but how is this relevant to HackerNews? HN isn't reddit.
by ourlordcaffeine 7y ago
Not to be a killjoy but how is this relevant to HackerNews? HN isn't reddit.
- Insanity 7y agoIf it makes it to the front page, people find it interesting. HackerNews is self-regulating enough with the voting system, so clearly it is of interest. Does not seem off-topic to me.
- 1000units 7y agoIf you read the article it shows that the murdering babies part of the story is merely incidental to a woman running an internet blog, which is old school Hacker News. I think its relevant as an examination of what could happen to us if we crank the narcissism and acquire brain damage simultaneously.
- mkl 7y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
- melenaboija 7y agoIt has same relevancy than your answer and it was posted for same reason, as you, someone thought it could be interesting to someone else. And that is the reason of the voting system.
- somesortofsystm 7y ago> HN isn't reddit. Yeah, reddit wasn't slashdot, either. Sites change. Its the people, duh. /off-topic Re: the "American" part of this: guess what kids, anyone can think they know best and end up in tragedy. That's why its good to know what you're doing. Its not just Americans who get befuddled with this, btw. In the real world, cargo cults abound!