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I'm foreign so I don't care much about american politics. I hope HN doesn't become reddit. So I flagged. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https

by alecco 2y ago

I'm foreign so I don't care much about american politics. I hope HN doesn't become reddit. So I flagged. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Hacker News Guidelines What to Submit 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. Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

muddi900 2y ago
Given the upvotes this topic got, it clearly sparks some intellectual curiosity. But you can see other comments in this thread about how pro-Trump posts, while being rare, are not flagged.
addandsubtract 2y ago
From the article: > If the U.S. Constitution is the core operating system of the U.S. government, the Archivist of the United States and NARA are the maintainers of the system’s foundational codebase of legal and historical documents. I would argue the article is very much hacker related. Even as a foreigner, the US deleting government records should worry you, as it affects more than just their egg prices.
csomar 2y ago
> Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. The potential collapse of American democracy is not interesting?
- cebert 2y ago
  [flagged]
  - muddi900 2y ago
    This is a very condescending way of admiting you did not read the article. Also this reaction alone shows that this topic is indeed relevant.
    - cebert 2y ago
      [flagged]
      - muddi900 2y ago
        I think you might be having trouble expressing yourself.
insane_dreamer 2y ago
This about the preservation of government records, definitely not "off-topic". If you're not interested, just move on to the next article. I skip over 90% of HN articles. Also, like it or not, American politics have a wide impact worldwide, more so than any other country (by far).

by alecco 2y ago

muddi900 2y ago

Given the upvotes this topic got, it clearly sparks some intellectual curiosity. But you can see other comments in this thread about how pro-Trump posts, while being rare, are not flagged.

addandsubtract 2y ago

From the article: > If the U.S. Constitution is the core operating system of the U.S. government, the Archivist of the United States and NARA are the maintainers of the system’s foundational codebase of legal and historical documents. I would argue the article is very much hacker related. Even as a foreigner, the US deleting government records should worry you, as it affects more than just their egg prices.

csomar 2y ago

> Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. The potential collapse of American democracy is not interesting?

cebert 2y ago
[flagged]
- muddi900 2y ago
  This is a very condescending way of admiting you did not read the article. Also this reaction alone shows that this topic is indeed relevant.
  - cebert 2y ago
    [flagged]
    - muddi900 2y ago
      I think you might be having trouble expressing yourself.

insane_dreamer 2y ago

This about the preservation of government records, definitely not "off-topic". If you're not interested, just move on to the next article. I skip over 90% of HN articles. Also, like it or not, American politics have a wide impact worldwide, more so than any other country (by far).