Articles like this really demonstrate the value of HN as a community. Most people would never think a relatively obscure software blog would be a source of som

Articles like this really demonstrate the value of HN as a community. Most people would never think a relatively obscure software blog would be a source of some of the most reliable information about an event that the entire world is watching. Because we read HN (probably more often than we should), we are more informed than a sizable portion of news consumers.