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Being on a website called Hacker News. Seriously, this surprises you?
by lolwutf 13y ago
Being on a website called Hacker News.
Seriously, this surprises you?
- neumann 13y agoyes, it is not news if the link is a year old and deals with a topic that is no longer relevant. This is noise, unless there is some related context.
- Goopplesoft 13y agoHe's got a point though, theres quite a bit of precedence for this. E.g. all the random wiki articles posted that aren't 'news'.
- dasil003 13y agoTo be fair though, most of the random wiki articles aren't about corporate gossip.
- jerf 13y agoHN's front page sometimes has a flow to it for some stories. If a big comment thread starts about the wisdom of rewriting software, often someone will submit Joel's "Things You Should Never Do, Part I" [1]. More recently, if someone proposes a cracking contest, you'll get "The Fallacy of Cracking Contests" [2]. etc. So my question is, this sounds like it's part of some thread or other; what is it? "What is the context of this post?" is a completely different question than the more-often-asked one "What is this doing here, by which I passively-aggressively mean this shouldn't be here?", but I understand the confusion (no sarcasm, I really do). thisiswrong's reply is what I was looking for. [1]: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6932648 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6932648 ; see tptacek's top-level post