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Ask HN: Every article on the front page is about Steve Jobs. WTF?

13 points by cmatthias 15y ago

I realize that it's huge news that he died, but this is slightly ridiculous.

ck2 15y ago
Just vote for other stories then. People need to "mourn" even if we don't agree with the overboard attention.
- pseudonym 15y ago
  The interesting counterpoint to that is that all 30 of the stories currently on the "new" page are Steve Jobs related, as well. I'm just going to come back tomorrow, you guys have fun.
  - ck2 15y ago
    Yeah you can pretty much write off any tech site as well as the first 15 minutes of any news program for the next 24 hours. This is how the modern news cycle works, it has to burn itself out. What I am doing is using the new bigrss feed and working from the bottom to the top.
  - cmatthias 15y ago
    Yeah, exactly, I went out to page 4 of the "new" queue and was only able to find a few stories that weren't Steve Jobs related. I guess I'll just come back later.
channelmeter 15y ago
It just goes to show you how much Steve Jobs moved people regardless if people liked him or not.
- ck2 15y ago
  I've never used any apple products (at least not for more than 5 minutes before they completely turned me off) but 56 is too young for anyone and my condolences to those who are affected by this.
  - bigiain 15y ago
    Whether you use/buy/like Apple products or not - it's clear they (largely under Jobs' guidance) have been one of the fundamental forces shaping the computing and consumer electronics landscapes for over 3 decades. The man was a giant in his industry - up there with Gates and Torvalds. The world will continue on without him, and innovation/invention/market-leadership will rise, fall, and change in spite of him. Getting accolades from the likes of Gates, Brin, Page, Zuckerberg et al shows a lot about Jobs. Getting accolades from Obama shows different things. Im my opinion, filling the first 2 or 3 pages of HackerNews says an awful lot about how people in this community respect the man. Vale Steve.
mattm 15y ago
Geez man, I've only bought one Apple product in my life but this is a once in a lifetime event. Come back in a few days if you don't want to read about him.
chunkyslink 15y ago
Also every 'new' submission is also Steve related. He deserves it man.
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- cmatthias 15y ago
  Guilty as charged about contributing to the problem, but I went to the new queue with the express purpose of voting up every non-Steve Jobs related story I could find, and didn't find many. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. I still assert that it's ridiculous. Hell, the reddit front page is more sane right now than the HN front page, and that's saying something.
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    - cmatthias 15y ago
      The "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" comment was tongue-in-cheek and I apologize if it came off as insensitive. I have a ton of respect for the guy, and it's definitely a huge loss. But I'm just trying to say that maybe people are going a _bit_ overboard with the Steve Jobs stories. Can you understand where I'm coming from? Also, for tonight I have been and will continue to be reading reddit, and would appreciate if you didn't throw that around like it's a bad thing -- because right now it's a hell of a lot more interesting than HN. And, reddit has even managed to appropriately pay their respects to Steve with a couple of nice tributes on the front page.
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ck2 15y ago
I've created a filtered feed that removes "steve" "jobs" and "apple" http://feeds.feedburner.com/hacker-news-filtered http://feeds.feedburner.com/hacker-news-filtered I'll delete it after the weekend to respect PG. Hope that helps.
- cmatthias 15y ago
  Awesome, thank you!
channelmeter 15y ago
http://www.siliconvalley.com/ci_19049516 http://www.siliconvalley.com/ci_19049516

13 points by cmatthias 15y ago

I realize that it's huge news that he died, but this is slightly ridiculous.

ck2 15y ago

Just vote for other stories then. People need to "mourn" even if we don't agree with the overboard attention.

pseudonym 15y ago
The interesting counterpoint to that is that all 30 of the stories currently on the "new" page are Steve Jobs related, as well. I'm just going to come back tomorrow, you guys have fun.
- ck2 15y ago
  Yeah you can pretty much write off any tech site as well as the first 15 minutes of any news program for the next 24 hours. This is how the modern news cycle works, it has to burn itself out. What I am doing is using the new bigrss feed and working from the bottom to the top.
- cmatthias 15y ago
  Yeah, exactly, I went out to page 4 of the "new" queue and was only able to find a few stories that weren't Steve Jobs related. I guess I'll just come back later.

channelmeter 15y ago

It just goes to show you how much Steve Jobs moved people regardless if people liked him or not.

ck2 15y ago
I've never used any apple products (at least not for more than 5 minutes before they completely turned me off) but 56 is too young for anyone and my condolences to those who are affected by this.
- bigiain 15y ago
  Whether you use/buy/like Apple products or not - it's clear they (largely under Jobs' guidance) have been one of the fundamental forces shaping the computing and consumer electronics landscapes for over 3 decades. The man was a giant in his industry - up there with Gates and Torvalds. The world will continue on without him, and innovation/invention/market-leadership will rise, fall, and change in spite of him. Getting accolades from the likes of Gates, Brin, Page, Zuckerberg et al shows a lot about Jobs. Getting accolades from Obama shows different things. Im my opinion, filling the first 2 or 3 pages of HackerNews says an awful lot about how people in this community respect the man. Vale Steve.

mattm 15y ago

Geez man, I've only bought one Apple product in my life but this is a once in a lifetime event. Come back in a few days if you don't want to read about him.

chunkyslink 15y ago

Also every 'new' submission is also Steve related. He deserves it man.

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cmatthias 15y ago
Guilty as charged about contributing to the problem, but I went to the new queue with the express purpose of voting up every non-Steve Jobs related story I could find, and didn't find many. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. I still assert that it's ridiculous. Hell, the reddit front page is more sane right now than the HN front page, and that's saying something.
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  - cmatthias 15y ago
    The "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" comment was tongue-in-cheek and I apologize if it came off as insensitive. I have a ton of respect for the guy, and it's definitely a huge loss. But I'm just trying to say that maybe people are going a _bit_ overboard with the Steve Jobs stories. Can you understand where I'm coming from? Also, for tonight I have been and will continue to be reading reddit, and would appreciate if you didn't throw that around like it's a bad thing -- because right now it's a hell of a lot more interesting than HN. And, reddit has even managed to appropriately pay their respects to Steve with a couple of nice tributes on the front page.
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ck2 15y ago

I've created a filtered feed that removes "steve" "jobs" and "apple" http://feeds.feedburner.com/hacker-news-filtered http://feeds.feedburner.com/hacker-news-filtered I'll delete it after the weekend to respect PG. Hope that helps.

cmatthias 15y ago
Awesome, thank you!

channelmeter 15y ago

http://www.siliconvalley.com/ci_19049516 http://www.siliconvalley.com/ci_19049516