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Comment by benwr | Hacker News Reader

Is HN the only place you get news and information? It is one of the few places (specifically community sites) I can get news relevant to programming and startup culture. That's not to say there is no place for some of the stuff further to the right, but maybe not stuff we might find by going to cnn.com. The lack of "Sub-HNs" means that if we want to keep HN's utility in terms of sifting info and news on the internet, we have to keep a tight focus.

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Let me clarify (I'm being down-voted for stating my honest opinion which is in itself quite sad. I did not troll, nor was I disrespectful): I never said we should talk about the whole scope.

I certainly do not want to read news that would be to the far right of that diagram. But there are a number of soft skills you do acquire from sometimes leaning on the intersection between "hacker news" and just "news". I don't believe we should limit HN just to the very left because we'd miss those. That being said, this is HN and I don't ever want to come here for CNN content - that's why CNN.com exists.

I think you are being down-voted because your statement seems to imply that a person could not get the other news from anywhere else. I would like to see HN as just or predominately the far left of your diagram. I see news about everything everywhere, but I highly value the niche I see here and cannot find anything like it anywhere else. I'd like to see it not diluted.

FYI -- I did not down-vote your comment. I rarely ever down-vote anything on HN.

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