What does this have to do with hacker news?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13489156
Something like: we are banning people again, history repeats itself... but I didn't actually read the article (comments first) so I might be wrong.
of course we are human, but it's called "hacker news" and I guess people expect computer related news here. Just like when I visit soccer.com, I'm not expecting news about AI or Anne Frank :)
So it's not about being people too, it's about the subject focused (or at least implied) by this website.
I can also see the fact that HN is now more a community that an actual news site and people like to talk about more and more various subjects.
Therefore it's important that we talk about these things.
> The appeal of HN to me is that it's limited specifically to tech-related news.
...is wrong. The guidelines have said for years that on-topic is:
> 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.
edit: Allow me to rephrase a bit. Our actions as technologists have real effects upon real people. It is incumbent upon us to consider how the tools we make may harm or help our fellow human beings.
In Canada, newly graduated engineers are given iron rings to remind them of the ethical obligations incumbent in their jobs. We should all be so fortunate as to have a physical token reminding us of this on a daily basis.