Any specific examples of stories/articles that you'd prefer to be reading? I think you're definitely on to something, but the idea seems (for now) to be defined

Any specific examples of stories/articles that you'd prefer to be reading? I think you're definitely on to something, but the idea seems (for now) to be defined as a negative. In a way, Hacker News plays the role that high-quality publications do in other fields. In technology, everyone publishes on their own blogs, and aggregators link to the best writing rather. But in science, the aggregators are the journals themselves, and they publish articles instead of just linking to them. I think the ideal news aggregation site would be better than the best journal, but even here on HN there's only 2-3 really good, well-written articles per week. Does that mean that the entire technology world only produces 2-3 great pieces per week? I'm not sure. Also, the "tech industry" is huge. There are the CS academics on one side, whose work is definitely not getting enough attention. It's fascinating to trawl through conference sites and read papers, but where besides http://hnr.dnsalias.net/wordpress/ http://hnr.dnsalias.net/wordpress/ are you going to read well-written, approachable reviews of CS papers? And you also have the tech business people who can't program but would read business pieces. HN tries to appeal to both, but it (or something that wanted to be a better aggregator) shouldn't. So, just a few random thoughts...