I don't think this should be on hacker news. It's just another political divisive article.
I've no proof but it feels like there's more and more of this type of content being posted here. Please stop.
I've no proof but it feels like there's more and more of this type of content being posted here. Please stop.
There are sizeable fluctuations but I think the long-term state is stable. When too much repetition appears, users will increasingly flag it and moderators will increasingly downweight it.
What to Submit
On-Topic: 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.
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
If anyone wants to know how we approach this, https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... leads to a bunch of past explanations, though you have to scroll through some boilerplate to find them. Just look for the longer, older posts.
edit: I just posted article about death of pope Benedict to prove my point, I'm sure one of the threads about his death will have tons of upvotes while it has nothing to do with technology and it's not even relevant since he was not pope anymore
The point of hacker news, stated in the guidelines: "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."
Hacker News isn't, and has never been, a strictly technology oriented forum.