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> why are CityLab articles so often on Hacker News homepage? I've always assumed it was because they had quality articles about cities. Software engineers ofte
by SquishyPanda23 6y ago
> why are CityLab articles so often on Hacker News homepage?
I've always assumed it was because they had quality articles about cities. Software engineers often have an extracurricular interest in other types of engineering.
- bobthepanda 6y agoIt also helps that a lot of the urban planning trends in vogue, like "tactical urbanism", resemble the "move fast/break things" fast experimentation ethos. Cities produce a crapton of data, and in general HN is receptive to anything trying to make sense of and improve things based on data.