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The Website Hacker News Is Afraid to Discuss

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479 points jgruber | 5 comments | 27 Mar 25 00:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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TechRemarker ◴[27 Mar 25 00:33 UTC] No.43489148[source]▶
Would love to hear from HN on why such an otherwise incredible popular site is so often blacklisted or censored vs what is allowed. Why not let users vote instead like other news? Or if truly not being censored bring receipts on what’s happening?
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throwaway_0501 ◴[27 Mar 25 00:43 UTC] No.43489212[source]▶
It's not being blacklisted or censored (see other comment with link to submissions).

My suspicion: it's not relevant to the HN audience. DF is opinion pieces (mostly) about Apple. While I'm sure many DF readers use some Apple device(s), I suspect many (most?) DF readers do not care about "inside baseball"[0] for Apple.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_baseball_(metaphor)

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1. Eric_WVGG ◴[27 Mar 25 01:37 UTC] No.43489559[source]▶
Unlikely. “Rotten in Cupertino” was a bombshell and this forum should have been where the most insightful discussion took place. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43348891
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2. erickhill ◴[27 Mar 25 01:56 UTC] No.43489672[source]▶
100%. But if Gruber/Daringfireball are even shown for a split second, there's a kneejerk reaction to flag it before the flagger even often reads it. It's a shame.
3. detaro ◴[27 Mar 25 01:57 UTC] No.43489675[source]▶
a "bombshell" for the bubble of Apple-superfans, shocked that their high priest is criticizing Apple, maybe. For the rest of the world?
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4. rchaud ◴[27 Mar 25 13:46 UTC] No.43493614[source]▶
A 'bombshell' to me would include some original journalism, details we weren't otherwise aware of. I read that article, it is basically an essay about a guy realizing that the pedestal he puts Apple on may need some recalibration, just because their AI product sucks. Apple Maps in 2011 sucked too, the company is not immune to putting out crap.
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5. xcrunner529 ◴[01 Apr 25 20:29 UTC] No.43550998[source]▶
As opposed to slop on medium and nautil.us constantly posted here lol. (or wikipedia)