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> 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.
Don't post generic news that has no interest to our focus. There are a million other sites and Reddit. > 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.
On the other hand, there are stories where it's to HN's advantage not to cover it, because it provides a marker about what kind of site this isn't. "That what we not do", as my son said when he was 2. That's your argument too (obviously) and I appreciate your standing up for the site guidelines!
We decided for the latter rather than the former, but I'll stick up enough for Jerry to say that it wasn't an obvious call.
Don't post generic news that has no interest to our focus. There are a million other sites and Reddit. > 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.
This is actually a borderline case. One could imagine a good HN thread sharing memories about Springer and thoughts about his impact on the culture. IIRC, he himself was more interesting than those prime-time bloodbaths implied. On the other hand, there are stories where it's to HN's advantage not to cover it, because it provides a marker about what kind of site this isn't. "That what we not do", as my son said when…
I take issue with mainstream news because it's already beaten to death elsewhere, distracting from more important news like the passing of a truly incredible human being like Harry Belafonte. Or the 2 newspapers Ralph Nader is running. Or perhaps the potentially innocent person Oklahoma is determined to execute. The corruption scandal around Clarence Thomas doesn't get enough play. There's a good deal more deserving provincial American news than an opportunist who exploited people for ratings and money.
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This is actually a borderline case. One could imagine a good HN thread sharing memories about Springer and thoughts about his impact on the culture. IIRC, he himself was more interesting than those prime-time bloodbaths implied. On the other hand, there are stories where it's to HN's advantage not to cover it, because it provides a marker about what kind of site this isn't. "That what we not do", as my son said when…
You'd make a great parent of future lawyers. I take issue with mainstream news because it's already beaten to death elsewhere, distracting from more important news like the passing of a truly incredible human being like Harry Belafonte. Or the 2 newspapers Ralph Nader is running. Or perhaps the potentially innocent person Oklahoma is determined to execute. The corruption scandal around Clarence Thomas doesn't get eno…
I don't know about Ralph Nader's newspapers, but if there's something intellectually interesting about them that you want to post, you're certainly welcome to.
Linda Shafran, Springer’s publicist for 30 years, shared this piece as capturing him as she knew him.