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Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cu
by nilved 13y ago
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
- bsimpson 13y agoConsidering that a large number of people who frequent HN work near there, I think we can make an exception.
- stephengillie 13y agoHN shouldn't be your only source of information. This site is for technical discussion and other interesting things, not about local crime discussion. Isn't there a SFBlog.org page where this would be more fitting? If not, why doesn't someone start one?
- bsimpson 13y agoThat's fair, though I wonder if it would be more appropriate to level that at the droves of Aaron Schwartz/Ed Snowden/SFO crash posts that have been filling the front page this year. Unlike all the other off-topic posts that make the front page, this one could have saved somebody who would otherwise be headed that way now. At least in my book, that justifies its presence here.
- RKoutnik 13y agoThere's an unwritten "unless it relates to SF" exception to that rule (see: the SFO crash last week), as so many HNers live/work here. This is only a few blocks away, I'm very glad it made it to the front page.
- hnriot 13y agoSo? With a lot of us working a stone's throw from where this happened it's relevant. The majority of US startups making the apps and web systems you use work within a mile of this.
- tlrobinson 13y agoAirbnb, Zynga, Pinterest, Twitter, and dozens of other startups with employees probably reading HN are located within a couple blocks of that location, and there's a "shelter in place" order. I think you can deal with it for an hour or so.