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What's this doing on the frontpage? Am I missing something obvious?
by mixmax 18y ago
What's this doing on the frontpage?
Am I missing something obvious?
- omarchowdhury 18y agoYou're missing the little thing under every HN post title that says "Points". This one has over 40.
- mixmax 18y agoFrom the guidelines: What to Submit 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. Unless there's something I'm completely missing I don't see how this submission falls into the above category. edit: The question is partly serious: I've never owned a television, and haven't seen a movie for more than two years, so there could easily be something I'm totally oblivious to. It just seems like a post that would belong on Reddit.
- jacquesm 18y agoI don't have a television either, haven't owned one for over two decades but my PC plays movies just fine. No ads either, I really like that.
- mkelly 18y agoTo me, this list doesn't seem out of place here. Here's my stab at why: I've seen a few of these movies, and if the rest of them are in the same vein: they make you work to figure out what's happening in the film; and they sometimes mess with your perception of the world around you afterward. They are intellectually gratifying to watch.
- mixmax 18y agoOK, maybe I'm just totally off base then:-) Sorry if I am.
- ScottWhigham 18y agoYou aren't. I don't get it either.
- mhartl 18y agoMindfuck movies have the hacker nature. Also, from http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or egregiously offtopic, you can flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.