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Ask HN: Positive turnarounds dont get as much attention as failure on HN?

2 pointsby plicenseover 8 years ago
Zenefits recently held a user conference called Z2 and explained about how they are solving their regulatory problems and how the company is moving forward with their newly redesigned product. There has been a lot of press coverage around this too but I hardly see any article on HN making it to the front-page.<p>In comparison an article about how Theranos is halting its lab tests easily gets to the front-page without breaking a sweat.<p>Why does this bias exist amongst HN audience? Are we inherently biased towards seeing companies fail?

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pmontraover 8 years ago
This is general. Almost all the air time goes to bad news, almost nothing to good news.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.psychologytoday.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;wired-success&#x2F;201411&#x2F;why-we-love-bad-news-more-good-news" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.psychologytoday.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;wired-success&#x2F;201411&#x2F;wh...</a><p>However any post on HN about a new technology can be counted as good or neutral news. We&#x27;ve got plenty of them.