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Not Hacker News.

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lincolnq 18y ago
Disagree. The police interviews are designed to get people to say things that will get them convicted. This is a hackable system -- a social hack, but a hack nonetheless. (It might also be argued that the real hack is the police interviews where they trick people into giving up their 5th amendment rights.) Also, the video is extremely interesting in its own right.
- ardit33 18y ago
  I dissagree. This is more news suited for reddit.
  - sofal 18y ago
    I'd sooner quit using the Internet altogether than scour the main Reddit or Digg page for things to read.
    - greendestiny 18y ago
      Yes but if those articles come to Hacker News so you don't have to go to Reddit, why would you keep using HN? The best way to know if something is off topic, and indeed the best reason not to post off topic stuff, is if you think the community will spend more time debating whether the article is on or off topic than the article itself.
- jm4 18y ago
  That's a good point, but I think it's a stretch to argue that this is on topic. If the point of the submission was the social hacking aspect it might be better received if the headline reflected that. As is, a submission like this would be much more appropriate on Reddit or Digg.
rkowalick 18y ago
This IS hacker news. It is closely related to a certain creator of a certain file system who refused to exercise his 5th Amendment rights and is now formally convicted of murder.
- ConradHex 18y ago
  I'm not convinced that "how to kill your wife and not get caught" is really hacker news, though...
  - andreyf 18y ago
    If a certain someone had read it, the OS community would have been better off...
    - ConradHex 18y ago
      Are you being facetious? I think most people agree that people who kill someone ought to get locked up, even if it isn't convenient.
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mynameishere 18y ago
"Not Hacker News" is hn's equivilent of "First".
- eru 18y ago
  But you do not have to be the very fast, yet.
- run4yourlives 18y ago
  lol. True. Although, I wouldn't say it if I could just downvote it.
- ken 18y ago
  No, "Non-scribd link: http://*.pdf http://*.pdf" is the HN equivalent of "First".
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josefresco 18y ago
From the HN Guidelines: "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups." RTFG http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Not Hacker News.

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Disagree. The police interviews are designed to get people to say things that will get them convicted. This is a hackable system -- a social hack, but a hack nonetheless. (It might also be argued that the real hack is the police interviews where they trick people into giving up their 5th amendment rights.) Also, the video is extremely interesting in its own right.

ardit33 18y ago
I dissagree. This is more news suited for reddit.
- sofal 18y ago
  I'd sooner quit using the Internet altogether than scour the main Reddit or Digg page for things to read.
  - greendestiny 18y ago
    Yes but if those articles come to Hacker News so you don't have to go to Reddit, why would you keep using HN? The best way to know if something is off topic, and indeed the best reason not to post off topic stuff, is if you think the community will spend more time debating whether the article is on or off topic than the article itself.
jm4 18y ago
That's a good point, but I think it's a stretch to argue that this is on topic. If the point of the submission was the social hacking aspect it might be better received if the headline reflected that. As is, a submission like this would be much more appropriate on Reddit or Digg.

rkowalick 18y ago

This IS hacker news. It is closely related to a certain creator of a certain file system who refused to exercise his 5th Amendment rights and is now formally convicted of murder.

ConradHex 18y ago
I'm not convinced that "how to kill your wife and not get caught" is really hacker news, though...
- andreyf 18y ago
  If a certain someone had read it, the OS community would have been better off...
  - ConradHex 18y ago
    Are you being facetious? I think most people agree that people who kill someone ought to get locked up, even if it isn't convenient.

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mynameishere 18y ago

"Not Hacker News" is hn's equivilent of "First".

eru 18y ago
But you do not have to be the very fast, yet.
run4yourlives 18y ago
lol. True. Although, I wouldn't say it if I could just downvote it.
ken 18y ago
No, "Non-scribd link: http://*.pdf http://*.pdf" is the HN equivalent of "First".

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josefresco 18y ago

From the HN Guidelines: "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups." RTFG http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html