Yeah, this is literally the sort of mainstream celebrity news that HN should flag without question, but pop culture nostalgia always means the rules don't count

Yeah, this is literally the sort of mainstream celebrity news that HN should flag without question, but pop culture nostalgia always means the rules don't count. Pretending you flew in a spaceship in the 1960s shouldn't count for "technical merit." Meanwhile the story about an Israeli massacre of Gaza aid workers with actual technical content didn't last an hour before being flooded with complaints about being "off topic" then getting flagged. C'est la vie, Hacker News will never change.