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Another article that shows HN turned into a regular American newspaper.
by diamondhead 15y ago
Another article that shows HN turned into a regular American newspaper.
- jevinskie 15y agoYou don't think this headline will be running across all the world's newspapers tomorrow?
- jellicle 15y agoI think he thinks exactly that. Which is why it makes a bad HN submission. Flagged.
- zalew 15y agoI flagged it too. I don't know why you're downvoted. I wanted to say sth for myself, but maybe I'll stick to quoting the guidelines: "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. 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."
- oinksoft 15y agoFlagged also. A million places I can go for this sort of news.
- diamondhead 15y agoI don't give a piece of shit to international politics. If I did, I would read globalsecurity.org which does it very well. BTW American newspapers are much more interested at the politics of other countries because of the leadership of US.
- jevinskie 15y agoI see, I thought you were saying that it is only of concern to Americans and thus not suitable for HN.
- robryan 15y agoHardly, HN only covers world events with real global significance. I enjoy reading HN users takes on this kind of news as I find it interesting to discuss this kind of news but comments on mainstream news sites are terrible and I don't really have the time to invest in other sites with quality comments who cover this stuff in far higher volume.
- hartror 15y agoAgreed, the tone and community here provide interesting discussion and insights on the really big turning points such as these. Comparably on reddit there is a lot of chaff to work through to get to the interesting kernels.
- zalew 15y agoplease show me those "interesting discussion and insights" http://i.imgur.com/GaBJJ.png http://i.imgur.com/GaBJJ.png
- xnxn 15y agoSince you asked, http://i.imgur.com/NpexT.png http://i.imgur.com/NpexT.png I've highlighted the sort of discussion I'd like to see more of in blue, and the ones that I'd like to see fewer of in red. The unhighlighted comments provide no value to me but I don't mind their existence. Under this scheme, my own comment would be red, because it's meta and off-topic.
- diamondhead 15y agoWould you like to have a hacker community having smart conversations about Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, too?
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- TeMPOraL 15y agoI'm personally very happy that such articles appear here. I got used to the fact that HN covers only significant geopolitical events, so I can ditch every other news service and be sure that if something of actual importance happens, it'll be covered here as well. Also, I'd be hard pressed to find such quality of discussions anywhere else.