[chadcmulligan]

So on the hacker news front page today:

Colleges are closing because they're to expensive

What to do if you're stopped by police

The Top 10 books include 1984 and Fahrenheit 451

all we need is something about medical insurance sending people broke and the ever present incarceration rate.

You guys should really fix this (not an American), its not that hard.

[masonic]

  The Top 10 books include 1984 and Fahrenheit 451

No, the top ten books checked out in the history of the NYC Public Library include those two titles.

Fixing one's reading comprehension (or intellectual honesty) isn't that hard, either.

[chadcmulligan]

Thats the point you're arguing?

[P_I_Staker]

Knowing the top books in the NYC library is relevant and interesting information, not an endorsement of "top" books everywhere in the world.

[wyclif]

I get what you're saying and I'm sympathetic to it— a lot of the HN user base is outside the USA. I think there should be more differentiation of USA-specific content in titles and such.

But I think the assumption of YCombinator and HN is that since so much of what is under discussion here is SV related, then readers should assume it's USA-specific unless stated otherwise.

[chadcmulligan]

I meant fix the US :-) not hacker news showing the content. It seems a never ending stream of news from the US of things that are fixed (mostly) in every other western democracy but not in the US. Why do I care - well the US is the largest western democracy if it keeps heading this way then it will likely spread to us.

[Hydraulix989]

We had an article about Debitor’s Prison existing again yesterday too.