To explain a little further: I think of the frontpage more like a physics journal than hacker news; the ideas should build, and be able to be built upon, rather than relevant for just a few weeks.
In particular, this post was an edge case, and almost a fit for the front, as it used recent events to discuss some general points about how people respond to the news. However, to read this post you totally need a bunch of recent knowledge, and so it won’t be readable in two weeks.
But yup, totally fine and dandy for someone’s personal LW blog.
I affirm Chris_Leong’s and lahwren’s replies.
To explain a little further: I think of the frontpage more like a physics journal than hacker news; the ideas should build, and be able to be built upon, rather than relevant for just a few weeks.
In particular, this post was an edge case, and almost a fit for the front, as it used recent events to discuss some general points about how people respond to the news. However, to read this post you totally need a bunch of recent knowledge, and so it won’t be readable in two weeks.
But yup, totally fine and dandy for someone’s personal LW blog.