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Is there something hacker-related to this story? I read the first few paragraphs, but didn’t see anything, and couldn’t force myself to go any deeper into this

Is there something hacker-related to this story? I read the first few paragraphs, but didn’t see anything, and couldn’t force myself to go any deeper into this lawyer drama mind candy.

kbenson 6y ago
No, it's just a bit of interesting writing. If you truly want to tie it to some of the common themes of this site, you could say it's a case and character study of founders making it big and then breaking up. But that's not really needed. The only real rule about something being appropriate here is that people (the type that frequent here) have to find it interesting, and there's quite a lot that people here find interesting.
sergers 6y ago
It is one of the reasons I frequent hn. I like to unwind on weekends, tech free (outside of using my phone for browsing articles like this, and maybe some mindless TV/streaming). These articles are intriguing
tsomctl 6y 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.
tomc1985 6y ago
I personally hate reading stories about NYC, but I imagine this appeals to all the hackers in NYC so that they feel just a little bit better about their $5000/mo midtown apartments
- dang 6y ago
  Please don't post regional flamebait to HN. It just leads to worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - whatahypocrite 6y ago
    That's funny I never see you say the same thing when people trash California all the time here.
    - dang 6y ago
      Funnily enough I just ran across https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24397901 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24397901 a couple minutes ago. It's not so hard to find other examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22081394 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22081394 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21671193 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21671193 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21631939 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21631939 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21236423 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21236423 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21120904 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21120904 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21100172 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21100172 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18387354 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18387354 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9939600 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9939600 You may be running into the notice-dislike bias (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=notice%20dislike%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...), which unfortunately tends to gives people the distorted sense that the community and/or mods are stacked against them. By the way, if you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=likeliest%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). You can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com.

Is there something hacker-related to this story? I read the first few paragraphs, but didn’t see anything, and couldn’t force myself to go any deeper into this lawyer drama mind candy.

kbenson 6y ago

No, it's just a bit of interesting writing. If you truly want to tie it to some of the common themes of this site, you could say it's a case and character study of founders making it big and then breaking up. But that's not really needed. The only real rule about something being appropriate here is that people (the type that frequent here) have to find it interesting, and there's quite a lot that people here find interesting.

sergers 6y ago

It is one of the reasons I frequent hn. I like to unwind on weekends, tech free (outside of using my phone for browsing articles like this, and maybe some mindless TV/streaming). These articles are intriguing

tsomctl 6y 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.

tomc1985 6y ago

I personally hate reading stories about NYC, but I imagine this appeals to all the hackers in NYC so that they feel just a little bit better about their $5000/mo midtown apartments

dang 6y ago
Please don't post regional flamebait to HN. It just leads to worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- whatahypocrite 6y ago
  That's funny I never see you say the same thing when people trash California all the time here.
  - dang 6y ago
    Funnily enough I just ran across https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24397901 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24397901 a couple minutes ago. It's not so hard to find other examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22081394 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22081394 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21671193 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21671193 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21631939 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21631939 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21236423 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21236423 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21120904 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21120904 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21100172 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21100172 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18387354 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18387354 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9939600 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9939600 You may be running into the notice-dislike bias (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=notice%20dislike%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...), which unfortunately tends to gives people the distorted sense that the community and/or mods are stacked against them. By the way, if you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=likeliest%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). You can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com.