Interesting comment, thanks. Although: The point that if a story is on digg or reddit it doesn't belong on HN is a symptom of something else, namely that digg

Interesting comment, thanks. Although: The point that if a story is on digg or reddit it doesn't belong on HN is a symptom of something else, namely that digg or reddit is associated with a low common denominator, and thus an article that appears on these sites first shouldn't appear here. Not necessarily. It could simply be that many people who reads HN also reads, say, programming.reddit.com and are interested in stories with low duplication. Another possibility is simply that I am curious about what kinds of stories appear here but don't appear there. It doesn't have to be an elite vs. LCD, it could be startups vs. working for the man, Lisp vs. Python, anything.