Ask HN: Why is there so much The Atlantic on the frontpage?

2 pointsrmorabia5 comments

The Atlantic is known for clickbait, low-quality articles that would possibly never get voted so many times on Hacker News, and beyond that, so many times in one day.

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Maybe they're link spam bots. Reddit had this issue before, I believe.

Are you trolling us? The Atlantic is a well regarded publication.

Yeah, but it's awfully general for HN. We've really been drifting heavily in the direction of "general news" and generic political / social stuff for some time now, which is unfortunate.

Personally, I'd like a lot less of that stuff, and more "How I implemented MQTT in Erlang on an rPi", etc. :-)

Definitely not trolling. The Atlantic may be well-regarded, but it's full of pseudo-science and feel-good news that doesn't seem on par with Hacker News' adherence to quality.

I think you've confused The Atlantic with medium dot com.

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