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Big thread last week https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38719918 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38719918 and last last week https://news.ycombinator.
by pvg 3y ago
Big thread last week
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38719918 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38719918
and last last week
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38615841 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38615841
- dang 3y agoThanks! Macroexpanded: Police get medical records without a warrant - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38719918 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38719918 - Dec 2023 (258 comments) Pharmacies share medical data with police without a warrant, inquiry finds - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38615841 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38615841 - Dec 2023 (46 comments)
- WarOnPrivacy 3y agoJust adding for audience clarification and context: Techdirt is mostly about post-reporting analysis. They tend to come in when a story is a few days old and understanding has some percolation time. We can get a differently ordered picture than in the instants after news has broken.
- dang 3y agoI'm sure that's true. From a HN moderation point of view though, the question is whether two articles about the same underlying story are different enough to support substantially different conversations. If not, then the resulting thread will be largely repetitive of the original, and repetition is one of the main things we're trying to reduce here. In the present case the answer is pretty clearly 'no', because the comments aren't reacting to the OP's specific analysis, they're just responding to the general topic. This is pretty much what we'd expect since that's mostly how internet comments work. That doesn't invalidate your point, it just means that unfortunately the 'nuanced analysis' article that comes later is usually going to get downweighted as a follow-up on HN when the 'hot news' version of the same story already had significant attention.