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Comment by markus_zhang | Hacker News Reader

I'm just curious how does HN prioritize posts. TBH I don't think this is very relevant to HN overall, plus it doesn't have a lot of up-votes and 0 discussion (till now). How does it show up in the front page at all?

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It had 9 points at 26 minutes when you posted this and has 26 points now, at 34 minutes. [Edit: 124 at 1:10!]

A whole community can't instantly evaluate the article. Give things a chance!

AFAIK it's a combination score + recency, with penalties if it's flagged and/or getting a lot of comments.

I'm curious why you don't think it's relevant to HN, or do you think finance in general is irrelevant?

The problem is if finance is very relevant then pretty much we should be able to see a whole range of financial topics here. I still consider HN to be more tech related, but again this is just my POV. And if the community thinks finance is at least equally relevant then I'm fine.

I mean I don't "hate" this post, I'm just curious how relevant it is to HN community. And I could be on the wrong end.

Agreed. I would say fin tech is somewhat relevant, since it has the tech component. But finance in general does not interest me at all. And that's coming from a former accountant.

Stories are relevant if people find them interesting, and that’s about all the rhyme or reason there is to it. Somebody losing $20 billion in a matter of days is very eye-catching.

You are definitely on the wrong end. HN is for any articles that are interesting, with a bias towards tech but not exclusively about it. This is a fascinating article and I’m glad that it was posted.

Ignoring all the ways that tech and finance crisscross one another these days and focusing specifically on HN: Y Combinator is a venture capital firm, and startups are businesses. HN is inextricably tied to finance.

Bill Hwang was definitely a "hacker" of the finance system.

Zero Cool now has Zero Cash.

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