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I think Paul Graham's goal to prevent Eternal September on Hacker News can be officially declared a failure.

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• oskarth 14y ago
  Self-fulfilled prophecy? Please read http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html especially this bit: Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did. If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)
  • ta12121 14y ago
    First, it's not the comments I'm complaining about, it's the content, so no, my comment is not fulfilling any prophecy. Second, the title is sensationalistic and misleading. To a casual reader the it implies that the battery is ready for use ("creates") and that it's unique to IBM. Neither are true. A more accurate title would be: IBM research department is trying to develop commercial lithium-air batteries, just like lots of other people. The article is not in-depth, nor does it describe anything new or interesting in science. It is a brief, shallow overview of a line of research that has existed for decades. That is not news. Battery research is slow and plodding, yet linkbait link this is often all over reddit and other technology blogs. Hacker News was supposed to be free, or at least low, on this kind of garbage, but the fact that this is the second time I see this very article (or an equivalent one) shows that the Hacker News userbase is no more discriminating than any other news site based on user voting.