Sometimes I do not understand HN.
There is the original post of the guy that posted his DNA on github.com (with the link of course) and a decent discussion on
I don't read HN much, but I thought that in theory that's something you would expect of reddit and not HN? Isn't HN supposed to be above that kind of stuff?
Which is odd because starting from the blog you get the author's take on it AND a link to the code. It's not like you just get one or the other. I would think HN would (should?) be more interested in the whole story and not just a link to a codebase whenever possible.
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Sometimes I do not understand HN. There is the original post of the guy that posted his DNA on github.com (with the link of course) and a decent discussion on
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2211334
(5 hours ago)
and still this post is the most upvoted
Well the original is the blog entry, this is the actual pull request. Plus, this title is a lot funnier. What do you expect late on a Saturday night?
I don't read HN much, but I thought that in theory that's something you would expect of reddit and not HN? Isn't HN supposed to be above that kind of stuff?
There exists a non-negligible rift between "supposed to" and "actually does".
You could make the argument that HN would be more interested in the code as opposed to the blog talking about it...
Which is odd because starting from the blog you get the author's take on it AND a link to the code. It's not like you just get one or the other. I would think HN would (should?) be more interested in the whole story and not just a link to a codebase whenever possible.
In my experience the stories upvoted on a weekend or holiday are more lighthearted than on a week day.
The original is interesting, the Pull is funny. Funny beats interesting most days of the week. I laughed at least, and I think most people did.