it is a bit troubling to me how this and stories covering the same group of people are so often quickly flagged.
i saw this story on other sites and immediately thought: hacker news will be the best place to follow along with this only to see it flagged dead. it does seem like this seems to be happening quite a lot when a certain group of people and their competence levels are being covered.
> i saw this story on other sites and immediately thought: hacker news will be the best place to follow along with this
By the time the story hit other sites, HN had already been discussing it for quite a while (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43875476), and that thread had gone through the usual life cycle and was falling off the frontpage.
We've re-upped it now, because lots of people are having the experience you described: seeing the story on other sites and wondering why it isn't on HN.
i saw this story on other sites and immediately thought: hacker news will be the best place to follow along with this only to see it flagged dead. it does seem like this seems to be happening quite a lot when a certain group of people and their competence levels are being covered.
thanks for not burying this particular instance.