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is this on the front page of hn because jolie starred in hackers?

• daliusd 13y ago
  No. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html What to Submit On-Topic: 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.
• DanBC 13y ago
  There's some interesting stuff about describing risk. Patients don't understand risk, but scarily doctors often don't either.
• mysterywhiteboy 13y ago
  It is on the front page because enough readers of hacker news considered it interesting and [hacker]newsworthy, and therefore up-voted it.
  • exit 13y ago
    yeah, and by extension i'm asking why enough readers of hn considered it interesting.
    • prawn 13y ago
      Could be said that not enough people make health decisions based on risk. Someone quite public has done exactly that.