[whalesalad]

There was a period where Hacker News consisted primarily of people on the right-hand side of the spectrum. People who were working inside of startups or had lots of experience with the web and our industry. Pretty much everyone knew what sharding was, and MongoDB wan't very popular.

These days we've got a lot more people and they show up all across the board.

Clearly if this is on the homepage, it was voted there by your peers. This kind of knowledge is completely obvious to many of us, but not everyone is on your level. Cut 'em some slack.

[omarchowdhury]

Even so, for those who are up to that point, that headline could give the implication that Facebook is getting into the search business.

[jacquesm]

That's why you should read the articles and not just the headlines. Headlines more often than not give a wrong impression.

[mars]

i'm just not so sure if the direction this is heading to is good. and also the headline of that article is miserable (as omarchowdhury already pointed out).