Fidel Castro retires

Important world news, which is why it's on cnn.com and pretty much every other news site out there. Pretty much irrelevant to hackers.

I think it is sad that we are discussing weather or not the story should be in HN. I would rather like to see a smart discussion on the actual event from all the smart people here. For starters: what is going to happen to cuba now? Should the embargo end?

Ah, I see that PG's advertisement for news.yc has worked, and Reddit has come for a visit.

Whether it's interesting in its own right or not is not the issue. The subject matter is of a political nature, and doesn't really afffect or concern the technical community moreso than any other demographic group. Shouldn't this sort of thing be left to mainstream sites? In any event, most readers proably check other news sites, so this just seems redundant.

This is indeed big news. He's been in charge for almost half a century. Now what? Will his brother manage to keep control? Considering his age everybody must be plotting to take over the reins. Slow reforms or another revolution?<p>The Economist has more background: <a href="http://www.economist.com/daily/news/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10715023&#38;top_story=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.economist.com/daily/news/displaystory.cfm?story_i...</a>

Don't forget to notify, when Bush retire :)

This is just so boring, I (and I guess others too) don't give a flip if he's retiring or whatever! There is no point in posting this to HN, everyone knows that the we don't like such stories here. Hence, the debate is futile.