For you it is obviously not news, but for other people it probably is. For me, HN is about learning something new, not just for learning about something that happened in the last 24 hours.
Someone shared an article I had seen earlier that year. “Why would you share this? This is old news it’s already made the rounds on the web.” Like I expected everyone to have the same experience as me. Luckily someone told me to chill out or I’d be blocked, that the list was for any news people found interesting. I felt very embarrassed and didn’t post there again for a long time, but it was my own fault.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
There might or might not be discussion potential on any submission, so I understand arguing about their value, but that "news if you're a beginner" was very condescending. Why not be happy about today's lucky 10,000?
No, and I didn't mean to sound condescending. I'll take out the "only" in my message.
Edit: And to clarify what I meant, I may not have known every headline in 2017, but I sure as hell heard about most of the Vault 7 releases. An organization anonymously releasing a world power's cyber tooling is something out of a cyberpunk novel.