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I'm not trying to discount the article, but why do these things show up on HN? Seems completely unrelated to the primary theme.

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What do you think the primary theme of HN is? Because the stated theme 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.*

(Emphasis mine.)

Thanks for taking the time to respond (seems I got mostly downvoted). I guess my understanding of hacking meant most technology related.

Global warming is a direct result of technological change.

Your understanding of hacking is entirely irrelevant if the official scope of HN is literally “more than hacking” and even includes the word “anything”.

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