[afavour]

The strange parts:

- this is ostensibly a tech forum

- the article linked is not in English

- it’s barely readable in Spanish because of the popover ads. HN is usually pretty unforgiving of that.

[ywvcbk]

> this is ostensibly a tech forum

There are plenty of non tech related posts on the front-page all the time?

> barely readable

Who even read anything besides the headline these days?

[oh_my_goodness]

The last part is a very strong point, unfortunately.

[whamlastxmas]

It’s a hacker forum. Sailing across the world like he did was the hacker equivalent in the 1400s.

HN also constantly links to paywall articles, and I imagine at least ninety percent of people here use ad block

[afavour]

Comparing today’s tech hacking with sailing across the Atlantic is a very good joke, very funny.

[whamlastxmas]

Hacking in the context of hacker news doesn’t have to be related to technology at all