[wccrawford]

Or you could report them on sites that are for that kind of information. I applaud HN's determination to remain a site for hacker news, and not accept anything and everything that may affect a hacker in some way, shape or form.

[mirkules]

Like I said, we've had this discussion many times before on HN. The short of it is, I don't want HN to devolve into a"current events" type of site either, but without the now-deleted article "Blast in Oslo," I wouldn't even know something happened (because I wouldn't have checked the news sites otherwise).

I accept HN just won't be my one-stop solution for major news (I may not like it, but that's a different story). My comment was just a probable explanation as to why the headline sounded insensitive.

[mirkules]

On a related note (pardon me from replying to myself), as we should "...not accept anything and everything that may affect a hacker in some way, shape or form," I am strongly opposed to stories like "OS X Lion Released Today" or "Linux 3.0 released." In essence, these tidbits are just noise, worse than "current event" type stories because they are related to hackers, but really offer nothing interesting of value that we couldn't find on other sites (slashdot, techcrunch, et al). It is actually a news event disguised as an article.

More "Researchers develop tattoo that monitors glucose levels" and less "iOS 5 beta 4 is out," please!

[Udo]

Usually I would second that opinion. However, in this case I believe in the face of tragedy and/or very important events a community should disregard those restrictions and come together to exchange personal experiences and other information.