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> 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 m
by bojo 7y ago
> 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.
A lot of people here like a) the nerdiness of Tesla, and b) the stock market's reactions to it.
- floatingatoll 7y agoIn what way does Tesla’s stock price gratify intellectual curiosity today? Does today’s change in price materially improve or worsen Tesla’s product, ability to manufacture product, and/or cost of Tesla vehicles or feature options? Should I post to the front page each time Microsoft stock goes up? IBM? Bitcoin? Should I restrict such posts to stock prices that are powers of 2, so that it’s intellectually curious when it would not otherwise be? You haven’t made a case that Tesla’s share price is intellectually curious in any respect yet, and that’s my still-unanswered question to you: Why is today’s share price increase specifically relevant to HN?
- xkjkls 7y agoValuations should still be important. Given that Tesla has almost doubled in 5 trading days, that should be considered a significant event.
- floatingatoll 7y agoThanks!
- bojo 7y agoxkjkls gave a great answer, but does it matter? If the HN crowd upvoted it to the front page then enough people thought it was a valid topic that warranted some discussion.
- floatingatoll 7y agoI do often see posts in new that have 40+ upvotes and were flagged as soon as they reached the front page, so I don't take anything for granted.