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That's a bit harsh, while I don't agree with OP I don't think that your language helps in promoting a healthy discussion about what is reasonable to expect from a HN front-page post.

Also you say that "it's not HN job to entertain you". What is HN's job then? Because honestly I do come here to read things that entertain me.



To be news. I can understand if you missed that, it's not very obvious from visiting the home page.


That is very much not the purpose of HN, it's in

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


not sure what you were trying to prove with that, but it seems you proved yourself wrong. The link says "news", not "entertainment"


It doesn't say 'news' and the fact that HN is not about 'news' is in the first sentence of the guidelines beside being repeated in moderator comments endlessly for more than a decade. If you thought HN was about news because it says 'news' in the URL, you're mistaken.


> Type of site

> News aggregator

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News


That's interesting but you're better off going by the actual guidelines of the actual site and the many times they've been restated and commented upon by the actual moderators. Many relevant ones here

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

or here

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...


sorry but you don't get to redefine the word "news". The site is literally called "hacker news". so by definition, its a news site. granted, its news specific to computing and technology, but news just the same. unless everyone in the world got together behind my back, and changed the entire english language, then its a news site.


It can be a perplexing site, sort of like meeting a kitten named Tiger and yet living to tell the tale.




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