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.
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.
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.
Here is the biggest thread: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33082535" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33082535</a><p>As for why it's on second page right now - I think it was submitted after this one <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33082482" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33082482</a> , and some people flagged it as duplicate (and this has silent effect on ranking).
From the HN Guidelines [1]:<p>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. <i>If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.</i><p>[1]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html</a>
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
Nobody submitted it, or the submissions didn't get enough votes.<p>I think people are burned out on Musk and Twitter, and waiting for him to announce that he's buying Cloudflare.