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Why is this posted on hackernews?
by billsix 14y ago
Why is this posted on hackernews?
- georgemcbay 14y agoBecause somebody submitted it and then some other people upvoted it.
- Dylan16807 14y agoRoughly three of them, yes.
- mustafa0x 14y agohttp://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. Someone found it interesting?
- billsix 14y agoThanks for that link. I'm just surprised that this article is near the top of the front page, next to Apple, John Carmack, Android ported to C#, and an OpenBSD release. Seems to me that a few writer's articles always shoot to the top of this site, regardless of topic. No disrespect intended towards those authors.
- mustafa0x 14y agoI share your sentiments.
- Dove 14y agoIt's also possible that there are bots (or people) that simply submit Coding Horror posts. I believe duplicate submissions are counted as upvotes.
- Dove 14y agoThis seems particularly likely given that Coding Horror post is quite fresh. It shot to #3, but has fallen to #10 in the last few minutes.
- paulsutter 14y agoOne of the five key bullets in Paul Graham's last essay was "say what you think". If his essay deserves to be on hacker news, so could this.