On: The Armoured Glass Box Is an Instrument of Torture

[Proziam]

WTF you're right. Given the subject matter at hand, I find that pretty concerning. How is this not relevant or insightful to some people?

[Tomte → Proziam]

"Relevant" isn't the issue. "Gratifies intellectual curiosity" or something similarly worded is. Check the guidelines for HN.

Otherwise, racism, climate change, healthy diet, etc. would have to be guaranteed constant front page placement.

Important issues can be boring, they can also lead to discussions that only re-hash well-known positions.

Assange stories are a good example of that effect.

[bArray → Tomte]

From the guidelines [1]:

> 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.

Hackers _are_ interested in this story for many reasons. People re-hashing positions you happen to find boring is not a good measurement of what should stay or not.

I still don't understand why this was manually pulled from the front page.

> Otherwise, racism, climate change, healthy diet, etc.

> would have to be guaranteed constant front page placement.

They do occasionally end up on the front page when people find the topics interesting. For example this study on "night owls" [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22413676

[Tomte → bArray]

> People re-hashing positions [...] is not a good measurement of what should stay or not.

Yes, it is. The mods have repeatedly said so.

Which answers this why it was pulled.