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Do people flag these stories or are they programmatically kept off the front page. It’s strange that these stories never make it anywhere near the top.

5wd 5y ago
This is on the front page at the top.
- drewg123 5y ago
  Its only in "new" for me..
BrianOnHN 5y ago
Programmatic or manual suppression of keywords and/or domains. Look at the points, time and comments count of the current front page when compared to this which is currently on the second page. This: 33. BBC: Killings in Bucha are deliberate massacre – Ukraine (bbc.co.uk) 34 points by rendall 57 minutes ago | unvote | flag | hide | 5 comments Others: 3. Why to Care About Privacy After Years of Sharing Data (thenewoil.org) 28 points by Bright_Machine 1 hour ago | flag | hide | 8 comments 5. Rethinking Visual Programming with Go (divan.dev) 40 points by techplex 3 hours ago | flag | hide | 15 comments 6. Book Review: The Programmer's Brain (shkspr.mobi) 55 points by edent 3 hours ago | flag | hide | 11 comments 8. Podcast-conversations with YC founders whose startups failed (spotify.com) 26 points by thinkwithlucie 3 hours ago | flag | hide | 2 comments 11. The Science of Production (constructionphysics.substack.com) 9 points by sebg 1 hour ago | flag | hide | discuss
blub 5y ago
The level of discourse is squarely at “Russia is Nazi Germany with nukes” - written without correct capitalization. In general I’ve seen a handful of insightful comments on the Russia-Ukraine war, most comments are various levels of moral outrage or repeat the mainstream story without much critical thought.
- giraffe_lady 5y ago
  moral outrage is a correct and adequate response to many things and there is no virtue in capitalization.
- pxmpxm 5y ago
  This. I really don't understand why, but virtually all the comments seem to devolve into a prose version of yellow-and-blue watermark over one's facebook profile photo.
dpifke 5y ago
They are flagged for being off-topic, see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
- reitanqild 5y ago
  Note the word "probably". Seems like many miss it.
  - dpifke 5y ago
    Yup! According to dang, the reason they don't ban TV news sites entirely (CNN, BBC, Fox News, etc.) is because they do occasionally surface an on-topic story. Personally, I flagged this, because I don't see any evidence of "interesting new phenomenon" (quoting the guidelines again). War is not a new phenomenon, countries engaged in war being accused of war crimes is not a new phenomenon... hell, I grew up at the tail end of the cold war, so Russia being accused of war crimes is not a new phenomenon. There are a million places on the internet to discuss politics and world affairs. Hacker News generally isn't one of them. I don't ask my book club to talk about MMA, I'm not sure why people insist on discussing the war in Ukraine here.
    - sharken 5y ago
      I get your point, but massacre of the Ukraine population carried out by the Russians is newsworthy and yes perhaps off-topic. I'd much rather come to Hacker News to discuss these events as i find the moderation and general attitude of commenters to be very good. And yes Hacker News is absolutely much more, but it's hard to ignore what is currently going on in Ukraine.
      - empressplay 5y ago
        alleged
        5y ago
byt1e 5y ago

5wd 5y ago

This is on the front page at the top.

drewg123 5y ago
Its only in "new" for me..

BrianOnHN 5y ago

Programmatic or manual suppression of keywords and/or domains. Look at the points, time and comments count of the current front page when compared to this which is currently on the second page. This: 33. BBC: Killings in Bucha are deliberate massacre – Ukraine (bbc.co.uk) 34 points by rendall 57 minutes ago | unvote | flag | hide | 5 comments Others: 3. Why to Care About Privacy After Years of Sharing Data (thenewoil.org) 28 points by Bright_Machine 1 hour ago | flag | hide | 8 comments 5. Rethinking Visual Programming with Go (divan.dev) 40 points by techplex 3 hours ago | flag | hide | 15 comments 6. Book Review: The Programmer's Brain (shkspr.mobi) 55 points by edent 3 hours ago | flag | hide | 11 comments 8. Podcast-conversations with YC founders whose startups failed (spotify.com) 26 points by thinkwithlucie 3 hours ago | flag | hide | 2 comments 11. The Science of Production (constructionphysics.substack.com) 9 points by sebg 1 hour ago | flag | hide | discuss

blub 5y ago

The level of discourse is squarely at “Russia is Nazi Germany with nukes” - written without correct capitalization. In general I’ve seen a handful of insightful comments on the Russia-Ukraine war, most comments are various levels of moral outrage or repeat the mainstream story without much critical thought.

giraffe_lady 5y ago
moral outrage is a correct and adequate response to many things and there is no virtue in capitalization.
pxmpxm 5y ago
This. I really don't understand why, but virtually all the comments seem to devolve into a prose version of yellow-and-blue watermark over one's facebook profile photo.

dpifke 5y ago

They are flagged for being off-topic, see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

reitanqild 5y ago
Note the word "probably". Seems like many miss it.
- dpifke 5y ago
  Yup! According to dang, the reason they don't ban TV news sites entirely (CNN, BBC, Fox News, etc.) is because they do occasionally surface an on-topic story. Personally, I flagged this, because I don't see any evidence of "interesting new phenomenon" (quoting the guidelines again). War is not a new phenomenon, countries engaged in war being accused of war crimes is not a new phenomenon... hell, I grew up at the tail end of the cold war, so Russia being accused of war crimes is not a new phenomenon. There are a million places on the internet to discuss politics and world affairs. Hacker News generally isn't one of them. I don't ask my book club to talk about MMA, I'm not sure why people insist on discussing the war in Ukraine here.
  - sharken 5y ago
    I get your point, but massacre of the Ukraine population carried out by the Russians is newsworthy and yes perhaps off-topic. I'd much rather come to Hacker News to discuss these events as i find the moderation and general attitude of commenters to be very good. And yes Hacker News is absolutely much more, but it's hard to ignore what is currently going on in Ukraine.
    - empressplay 5y ago
      alleged
      - 5y ago

byt1e 5y ago