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This article suffers from a baity title and sensational opening but then gets pretty substantive and, I think many readers would say, interesting.
Topics like this have always appeared on HN and as long as (1) they don't come up so often as to feel repetitive and (b) the article is substantive, I think it's ok.
I guess I just see this exact argument being made all over the place, so I’m a little weary of it. But this article is one of the best iterations of it that I’ve seen.
Quoting from the guidelines linked in the footer:
> 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.
This is your prediction. It seems overconfident to me.
Now, do we discuss emotions well? It seems to me that the U.S. population in general doesn't. But I admit this claim is quite vague, undefined, and hard to measure. The population with higher education probably does somewhat better? (I'd be interested to see what measurable metrics would best correlate.)
Anyhow, it seems to me that most people have an inherent drive for close interpersonal relationships, of which dating is one.
My opinion: Hacker News, as a forum, isn't really properly designed for it (even though it has people who are capable of being articulate and decent to each other). Even if HN was well-designed for emotionally-charged topics, the subset of people here might not be the best choice of a community for learning about romantic relationships with people who are often outside that community. :)