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This is an actual honest question; why is this on hacker news?

• mumblemumble 6y ago
  Because at least 203 people, as of this counting, thought it was interesting enough to either submit the link or click the up arrow.
• speed_spread 6y ago
  Prince Phillip invented the Internet
  • akmarinov 6y ago
    And co-founded Tesla.
  • qshaman 6y ago
    Prince Philips owned the rigs that pre-mined the shitcoin that john2602 will sell you on signal.
• s_dev 6y ago
  Hacker News is a forum for anything of interest to nerds. It doesn't have to be technical or scientific or academic. The death of a royal may be of interest to nerds.
  • brudgers 6y ago
    The criterion is “intellectually interesting.”
• drewcoo 6y ago
  Because libertarian technologists are attracted to power and rules. Vote me down, but the comments bear me out.
  • dang 6y ago
    Please stop posting unsubstantive comments.
• 74d-fe6-2c6 6y ago
  Because HN is going yellow press ... I mean there are all the time debates about what belongs here and what not. Bottom up - if something reaches the front page it belongs here. Top down - this definitely does not belong here. It's simply irrelevant. You say because he did something with computers once - great - then we'll have obituaries about every body soon on here.
• RHSman2 6y ago
  Because even nerds get bored of compilers and deepfakes.