There's a difference between things that are interesting to the intellectually curious, and things that are interesting to hackers. This topic provides a good

There's a difference between things that are interesting to the intellectually curious, and things that are interesting to hackers. This topic provides a good example. The economony is a big, somewhat hackable system. We elect representatives to steer it and shape it. When a big, important system's performance starts to degrade, that attracts the attention of hackers. The Israel/Gaza war is much less hackable seeming. Important, appalling events are occurring, but to my mind they are not hacker news. It's a subjective call. This is your site, and of course you are entitled to decide what is Hacker News. [edit] Politics and wars are also hackable, in some sense, so maybe this distinction is less crisp than one would like. But there does seem to be a difference between using this site to talk about economics, and using it to talk about conflicts between nations or political parties. In the case of entrenched conflicts, discussion is very unlikely to change anyone's model of how the world works. The thing I like about discussion here is reading it and participating in it supports the evolution and refinement of my model of how the world works.