Epidemiology isn’t an obvious core competence for a site named Hacker News, though. IMHO the best part of HN is anything that benefits from a perspective on so

Epidemiology isn’t an obvious core competence for a site named Hacker News, though. IMHO the best part of HN is anything that benefits from a perspective on software history because somebody will jump in with “Yeah I was there at Sun in 1986…” and tell the story. The closer it gets to everyday politics or JavaScript framework du jour, the worse the signal-to-noise ratio.