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Ask HN: Why haven't there been more articles about the tragedy in Norway?
I'm just asking this because I'm genuinely curious. I've been checking HN daily now for over a year and generally, when there's a world event of any form, people will submit articles about it and, despite the protestations of some in the respective articles threads - generally about it not being "of interest to hackers" - a robust debate will often ensue. Obviously given the situation in Norway robust debate isn't exactly the order of the day, but I'm still surprised there's not more articles about the situation there ranking highly.
Have I misread the behavioural patterns of the community when it comes to world events and not picked up on some nuanced quality required for an event to become HN-worthy? Or is it just that events like this are of little interest to the HN community-at-large?