[slm_HN]

I take this as a positive sign that Hacker News is working.

I suffered through reading this post which contains such gems as: "Have you ever been clinging onto a rocket ship, then cut the engines at full speed, and then tried to fly again?" because it was on the front page of Hacker News. When I refreshed the site a couple minutes later it was mercifully off the front page.

I'm curious how it got front page to begin with but I'm glad it didn't last long.

[ronaldx]

I read it with the same reaction that you did, but I did read it: because it was interesting.

In the end I was considering whether the remaining staff are being abused, judged on subjective measures such as being "here for the right reasons", with their jobs under threat no matter how good their work is. It sets a tone of being awfully threatening to the staff, who must already have suffered through the uncertainty.

I was left wondering if any member of Jason's team would dare to give a negative or neutral answer to his question. Did he only publish the answers that he wanted to hear, or did he only get the answers that he wanted to hear.

I'm sure many people on HN would find this an interesting read and it's a shame that this won't be more widely seen.