A lot of what gets posted to HN would not be deemed "news" in a lot of circles. Most stuff billed as "news" is bad news. If you need to keep up with current in

A lot of what gets posted to HN would not be deemed "news" in a lot of circles. Most stuff billed as "news" is bad news. If you need to keep up with current info in various subjects, there are ways to do that without consuming tons of the "Dirty Laundry" variety of news. ("The bubble-headed bleach blond....etc...is the head dead yet? etc) It can also help to have a broader perspective on some topics. I'm an environmental studies major. I'm usually the weirdo saying "How about y'all chill? Actual recorded temperatures go back less than X number of years. The rest is based on inference from various mental models and those are sometimes later overturned. We don't actually have as much hard data as many people assume, so record-breaking highs for this area isn't necessarily the scary shit the News tends to spin it as." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27658488 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27658488