I came to read the commentary about Musk’s offering to complete the acquisition of Twitter, instead we have Donald Knuth on the front page. I love computer science, but I am yearning to read your thoughts on Musk’s change of mind.
by slater on 10/4/22, 5:54 PM
Musk exclamation #9819891821981, after the previous 9,819,891,821,980 exclamations were just his usual self-serving, self-aggrandizing hype/troll comments, do not a good front page post make.
by topspin on 10/4/22, 6:23 PM
The story is being redundantly posted every few minutes for the past two hours.
by jfoster on 10/4/22, 6:01 PM
I was also wondering this. I don't care too much about one instance, but it makes me wonder what other major tech news HN is failing to select for. It's relevant & a very significant story, so I think of it as a failure of HN's system/community if it doesn't rank appropriately.
by r721 on 10/4/22, 6:18 PM
by takoid on 10/4/22, 5:59 PM
From the HN Guidelines [1]:
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by detaro on 10/4/22, 5:56 PM
.... a submission doesn't have to be on the front page for you to be able to read the comments on it.
by badinsie on 10/4/22, 9:34 PM
i think he just wants to be done with it. he's just gonna take the hit and remove the 80% of accounts that are owned by bot farms / CIA propagandists etc etc and they just dont want to draw anymore attention to it
by incomingpain on 10/4/22, 6:01 PM
Nobody cares?
by bombcar on 10/4/22, 6:17 PM
Nobody submitted it, or the submissions didn't get enough votes.
I think people are burned out on Musk and Twitter, and waiting for him to announce that he's buying Cloudflare.