Agreed, as I can’t see what this has to do with “hacking”. It fits the “news” part, but I am not here for this type of news.
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HN is not just about hacking and not just about news. This is the first thing the site guidelines emphasize: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
You don't have to engage with things you are not "here for" that's up to you. It's not against the rules and as every "hacker" would agree with stop censoring other people.
I'm not so sure about this. If it fills with non hacker type news, what is the point of hacker news?
>If it fills with non hacker type news, what is the point of hacker news?
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.
Got it. Time to start posting tiktok memes then.
And what have posting articles about death of Viviane Westwood or Pele have to do with hacking? We should use same meter and not post any death unrelated to tech field. I have same opinion regarding Show HN Merry Christmas or Happy new year threads.
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