Kafka: An End or a Beginning?

Re:Kafka: An End or a Beginning? by dang on Monday November 21, 2016 @12:15AM (#13003328)

Please don't post this sort of swipe. It's fine if you're uninterested in (Franz) Kafka; plenty of the rest of us are, and the submission is perfectly on topic.

It's in HN's DNA (not to mention the opening paragraph of https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) that it covers a wide range of topics, far beyond just computing, tech, and startups and definitely including arts and letters, among other things. Historical material is welcome too.

Acting like the rarer species should be wiped out is a lame way to treat this site.

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Re:Kafka: An End or a Beginning? by justin_vanw on Thursday November 24, 2016 @07:14AM (#13029916)

I've been on HN for about 10 years now... It used to be 99.99% on topic stories about startups and technology.

Now it's just random 'interesting' things? That's what reddit is for IMO.

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Re:Kafka: An End or a Beginning? by StevePerkins on Monday November 21, 2016 @06:59AM (#13004710)

On the other hand, when a title is going to mislead and confuse most readers, it would be courteous to extend or clarify the title such as:

"(Franz) Kafka: An End or a Beginning?"

That is, unless the goal is to mislead and feel smug about it.

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Re:Kafka: An End or a Beginning? by zellyn on Monday November 21, 2016 @09:07AM (#13005420)

On my screen, it shows up as "Kafka: An End or a Beginning? (lareviewofbooks.org)" which was all the information I needed to determine that it related to the Author before clicking through.

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Re:Kafka: An End or a Beginning? by dang on Monday November 21, 2016 @01:27PM (#13007750)

As both zellyn and the site guidelines point out, the domain name is part of the title here, so it wasn't as ambiguous as all that.

Not spoon-feeding readers is part of what makes HN HN.

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