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Why is this on HN? Trolling the Wikipedia site might be an interesting hobby, but I don't see in any way how it fits HN.
by vonskippy 13y ago
Why is this on HN? Trolling the Wikipedia site might be an interesting hobby, but I don't see in any way how it fits HN.
- chockablock 13y ago"Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site." - http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- 10098 13y agoHe's not complaining, he's asking. I also do not understand what on earth this tradition has to do with hacking. Or news.
- visakanv 13y agoYet strangely, hackers are finding this piece of news interesting. I wonder why? Could it be the idea of having a cat on a ship is interesting from a systems perspective? What's a ship's cat equivalent in a computer or human system? Some sort of roving troubleshooter?
- mwfunk 13y agoSure he's complaining. He complained in the form of a question, like you just did.
- gruseom 13y agoLots of things on HN have to do with neither hacking nor news. That's part of its charm, always has been. If PG can post about the margins of medieval manuscripts, then anything goes, so long as it isn't dumb. The only sin is to be uninteresting.
- oneandoneis2 13y agoIt's on HN because somebody submitted it, and it's on the front page because enough people up-voted it to get it there. That really is about as good an explanation as you're going to get :)
- hoektoe 13y agoThe cat's have finally made a through. D-Day for cats on HN :) Interesting, albeit nothing to do with HN
- andrewtbham 13y agousing a cat to kill mice on a ship is a hack. i would argue this is much more relevant than the political stories that make the front page.
- jasoncartwright 13y agoIt was posted to Twitter by Jeff Atwood - https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/440356834545647616 https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/440356834545647616
- serf 13y agoIt is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature. -esr