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Okay, fine, but how on earth is the posted article submission even on-topic for the site? And for the front page?
by OutOfHere 4mo ago
Okay, fine, but how on earth is the posted article submission even on-topic for the site? And for the front page?
- dang 4mo agoAnything that gratifies intellectual curiosity is on topic for HN! - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html That doesn't mean it has to gratify your curiosity or mine - no single article can do that for everyone. But it's clear that that's what makes the article on topic. One other aspect: the best HN submissions are the ones that are most uncorrelated with anything else that's gotten attention recently - or, as I used to put it, can't be predicted from any existing sequence*. This one has that property for sure! * https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=sequence%20can%27t%20predict%20by%3Adang&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- umjunsik132 4mo agoHi dang, sorry to ping you here again. I emailed back about a week ago but haven't heard back. My posts are still showing up as [dead] immediately after submission even with non-dev.to URLs. Would appreciate it if you could take a look when you get a chance. Thanks!