However, HN isn’t only about tech. HN is about fascination for the world from a scientific angle. Most on HN are techies, so that explains its tech bias.
“anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.” [1]
“Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.”
^ This does not justify the current topic that strongly. It does justify the fascination for the world from a science perspective angle. It also corroborates your part about stating it’s not particularly significant.
For me, the good faith view of all of this IMO is that having a discussion about friendly states spying on each other with this crowd is interesting enough.
However, HN isn’t only about tech. HN is about fascination for the world from a scientific angle. Most on HN are techies, so that explains its tech bias.
“anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.” [1]
“Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.”
^ This does not justify the current topic that strongly. It does justify the fascination for the world from a science perspective angle. It also corroborates your part about stating it’s not particularly significant.
For me, the good faith view of all of this IMO is that having a discussion about friendly states spying on each other with this crowd is interesting enough.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html