Can you elaborate? I'm not sure what Reddit has to do with this.
HN is about what hackers find interesting. A fair number of us have endorsed this particular topic and resulting discussion, enough to suggest that people find it interesting for one reason or another.
Does one need to be a hacker to sign up for this site?
As a thought experiment, do you think it would be that difficult to get, say, 15 or 20 people who love professional bike racing to sign up, and coordinate voting up an article about Bradley Wiggins' difficulties at the Giro d'Italia, which some of us hackers find to be very interesting reading?
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Why is this in hacker news?
Because a user found it suitable enough to submit and a few others agreed with that submission enough to upvote it.
Since this site has stricter guidelines than Reddit, that's not actually an answer.
Can you elaborate? I'm not sure what Reddit has to do with this.
HN is about what hackers find interesting. A fair number of us have endorsed this particular topic and resulting discussion, enough to suggest that people find it interesting for one reason or another.
Does one need to be a hacker to sign up for this site?
As a thought experiment, do you think it would be that difficult to get, say, 15 or 20 people who love professional bike racing to sign up, and coordinate voting up an article about Bradley Wiggins' difficulties at the Giro d'Italia, which some of us hackers find to be very interesting reading?
Because startup people can identify with the mindset of working 16 hour days. I don't but some people here do.