"There are 35 microphones planted around the city that can instantly detect the exact location of a gunshot down to a few meters (and just as instantly train cameras on escape routes)."
I'm glad it is. There are (much) bigger problems in the world than growth hacking and nginx performance.
There are many bright people here, it'd be a waste if important issues like these weren't discussed in this forum.
Hmm... what about Clojure?
When anyone can create an account and start voting, both moderation and reminders from existing users about appropriate content are needed to prevent or slow the move from specialized articles to general interest timewasters.
It happened to digg and reddit, I'm perfectly happy with people voicing concerns where appropriate to prevent HN from just becoming another reddit/digg/fark/somethingawful/thechive
There have long been articles dealing with sociological and economic realities of our time on HN.