While a mainstream newsworthy story, I fail to see how it “gratifies one's intellectual curiosity” or is “Anything that good hackers would find interesting.”
Yeah, I too feel that anything that's TV news should be left out of HN. I mean, as an outsider (to us politics), I didn't see a whack of difference between standard twitter/instagram slop and what was on HN, for something like say, recent US elections. It was just slop here too. Not to mention most comments just quoting tweets, making most threads "RSS for twitter".
I feel like enforcing the TV news rule better is probably the best bang for the buck.
This doesn't mean all government related stuff, for example, chatcontrol is kind of tech-relevant, so makes sense to talk about it. But really? did we need to discuss charlie kirk here, or gaza/ukraine/pahalgam/what have you? Multiple times too.
but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.
HN sometimes feels more promotional and like an extension of /r/apple and people playing silicon valley sportsball.
I like the posts about curious things, not so much press releases, new product announcements, and people carrying water for trillion dollar companies. I don't exclude myself from this, my high horse is a donkey on stilts.
Kind of disappointed lately by the number of political posts. It's not that I don't care about what's going in the US, it's just that I'm already bombarded with news about it, and I come here to get away from it and learn cool stuff...
awb|5 months ago
As a long-time user I’ve seen the most change around “What to Submit”:
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics
> If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic
The guidelines haven’t changed but it feels like the enforcement of it has.
For example, the US government shutdown is currently on the HN top 20: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45434146
While a mainstream newsworthy story, I fail to see how it “gratifies one's intellectual curiosity” or is “Anything that good hackers would find interesting.”
porridgeraisin|5 months ago
I feel like enforcing the TV news rule better is probably the best bang for the buck.
This doesn't mean all government related stuff, for example, chatcontrol is kind of tech-relevant, so makes sense to talk about it. But really? did we need to discuss charlie kirk here, or gaza/ukraine/pahalgam/what have you? Multiple times too.
politelemon|5 months ago
but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.
HN sometimes feels more promotional and like an extension of /r/apple and people playing silicon valley sportsball.
I like the posts about curious things, not so much press releases, new product announcements, and people carrying water for trillion dollar companies. I don't exclude myself from this, my high horse is a donkey on stilts.
coumbaya|5 months ago
DigitalFreedom1|5 months ago
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