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by IAmGraydon 745 days ago
We’re upvoting links to NY Post now? This place is spiraling fast. Have a look at the author’s archive to get an idea of the level of journalism that just ended up on the front page:

https://nypost.com/author/andrew-court/

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That's not a take, that's a primary source

Here's a gift link

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/02/world/americas/starlink-i...

One of the quirks of HN (and a good one IMO most of the time) is that people tend to reply to the title and not the source. I didn’t even realize the source of the article before you mentioned it.
That’s not a quirk of HN. It’s a quirk of lazy humans, and I don’t understand how replying to titles would ever be a good thing.
Because it short circuits the tendency to only allow articles from “the right kind” of sites. It also opens up conversation on topics tangentially related to the link, but not directly about it - which end up being the best comments more often than not.
I was saddened to see that :/ It supports some of my current beliefs, so wanted it to be true. But yeah, I'm not taking the NY Post's word for it.