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Ask HN: Do we really need every article to be about Chrome OS?

6 points by jrockway ↗ HN
Is there nothing else interesting or newsworthy today? A lot of good articles on the "new" page are being ignored in favor of speculation on an unreleased Linux distro. Is it <i>really</i> that interesting?

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jrockway
Interesting observation, asterisk-word-asterisk in the text above results in the <i> tags, but in comments it results in italics.
rewind
If people didn't find it interesting, it wouldn't be on the front page. It's not like it's not newsworthy. And it will be there today and gone tomorrow. I thought we were beyond complaining about what makes it to the top page.
dylanz
"And it will be there today and gone tomorrow"... I disagree. We'll see it cropping up for at least about 1 or 2 weeks, then the posts will start dying down.

It's just like how humans gossip about pop culture media events, but, on computers... about computers.

rewind
It might be, but my point was more than you have no control over it, especially after it's already on the front page. Sometimes the front page is really interesting and sometimes it's a lot of shit. The problem is that everyone's definition of interesting and shit is different, so the community just decides that stuff. Sometimes we agree with the community; sometimes we don't. It's just the nature of the site.
dylanz
Gotcha. Yeah, I agree completely. By the way... Did you hear about the new Chrome OS?

:P