[diamondhead]

Another article that shows HN turned into a regular American newspaper.

[robryan]

Hardly, HN only covers world events with real global significance. I enjoy reading HN users takes on this kind of news as I find it interesting to discuss this kind of news but comments on mainstream news sites are terrible and I don't really have the time to invest in other sites with quality comments who cover this stuff in far higher volume.

[hartror]

Agreed, the tone and community here provide interesting discussion and insights on the really big turning points such as these. Comparably on reddit there is a lot of chaff to work through to get to the interesting kernels.

[zalew]

please show me those "interesting discussion and insights" http://i.imgur.com/GaBJJ.png

[xnxn]

Since you asked, http://i.imgur.com/NpexT.png

I've highlighted the sort of discussion I'd like to see more of in blue, and the ones that I'd like to see fewer of in red. The unhighlighted comments provide no value to me but I don't mind their existence. Under this scheme, my own comment would be red, because it's meta and off-topic.

[diamondhead]

Would you like to have a hacker community having smart conversations about Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, too?

[TeMPOraL]

Why not, if there is something smart to discuss about them, something gratifying our intellectual curiosity[1]. I vaguely remember even pg referring to Lady Gaga as hacker in clothes space in (I think) Hackers&Painters (anyone have the reference? I can't seem to find it :/).

[1] - http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[TeMPOraL]

I'm personally very happy that such articles appear here. I got used to the fact that HN covers only significant geopolitical events, so I can ditch every other news service and be sure that if something of actual importance happens, it'll be covered here as well.

Also, I'd be hard pressed to find such quality of discussions anywhere else.

[jevinskie]

You don't think this headline will be running across all the world's newspapers tomorrow?

[jellicle]

I think he thinks exactly that. Which is why it makes a bad HN submission. Flagged.

[zalew]

I flagged it too. I don't know why you're downvoted. I wanted to say sth for myself, but maybe I'll stick to quoting the guidelines:

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

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. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

[oinksoft]

Flagged also. A million places I can go for this sort of news.

[diamondhead]

I don't give a piece of shit to international politics. If I did, I would read globalsecurity.org which does it very well.

BTW American newspapers are much more interested at the politics of other countries because of the leadership of US.

[jevinskie]

I see, I thought you were saying that it is only of concern to Americans and thus not suitable for HN.