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At a first glance, I'd agree. But as I mentioned, there are interesting technical details here, no? > Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That i

At a first glance, I'd agree. But as I mentioned, there are interesting technical details here, no? > Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups What's more of a hack than working around some of the most powerful institutions in the world? EDIT: on second thought, I'd be pretty shocked if this were covered on cable news.

fsflover 2y ago
I expect that an article dedicated to interesting technical details will not be flagged.
pvg 2y ago
there are interesting technical details There aren't any in the thing you linked. There are interesting technical details in, say, delivering a twitch stream but most twitch streams are not good HN posts. What's more of a hack than working around some of the most powerful institutions in the world? That's the 'everything is related to everything somehow' argument but, similarly, you can make it about anything - it just tends to avoid the concrete objections to the thing.
- ifyoubuildit 2y ago
  > That's the 'everything is related to everything somehow' argument but, similarly, you can make it about anything - it just tends to avoid the concrete objections to the thing I'm thinking of this more in the sense of the ycombinator application question: "Please tell us about the time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage." This could be an example of a tactic for a startup to use against incumbents with enormous advantages, since thats basically what the situation is.
  - pvg 2y ago
    Third party candidates always struggle for coverage and publicity and the criteria you're applying might describe something interesting if it was novel, successful and written in an interesting way. An announcement about streaming debate reactions that's mostly advocacy and a countdown clock isn't evidence of any of these things. If it turns out they are evident, you can conceivably post some writeup about it afterwards that might get better reception as it would fit HN's remit better.

fsflover 2y ago

I expect that an article dedicated to interesting technical details will not be flagged.

pvg 2y ago

there are interesting technical details There aren't any in the thing you linked. There are interesting technical details in, say, delivering a twitch stream but most twitch streams are not good HN posts. What's more of a hack than working around some of the most powerful institutions in the world? That's the 'everything is related to everything somehow' argument but, similarly, you can make it about anything - it just tends to avoid the concrete objections to the thing.

ifyoubuildit 2y ago
> That's the 'everything is related to everything somehow' argument but, similarly, you can make it about anything - it just tends to avoid the concrete objections to the thing I'm thinking of this more in the sense of the ycombinator application question: "Please tell us about the time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage." This could be an example of a tactic for a startup to use against incumbents with enormous advantages, since thats basically what the situation is.
- pvg 2y ago
  Third party candidates always struggle for coverage and publicity and the criteria you're applying might describe something interesting if it was novel, successful and written in an interesting way. An announcement about streaming debate reactions that's mostly advocacy and a countdown clock isn't evidence of any of these things. If it turns out they are evident, you can conceivably post some writeup about it afterwards that might get better reception as it would fit HN's remit better.