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Re:Reboot Your Dreamliner Every 248 Days to Avoid Integer Ov... by setr on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @12:40PM (#17910378)
Nobody is required to be anything on any public forum; that doesn’t change the fact that communities exist, and the vast majority of people on a forum are there due a particular taste, and share a common preference for discussion.

That anyone of any interest can visit the webpage is not a sufficient explanation as to why anyone of any interest do visit it. The question is whats so special about HN that draws such a varied background, despite it clearly having its strongest preference towards software engineering (on any given day, if you counted by category, it would be surprising to find software engineering / programming not as the highest).

A reddit forum has the same public property, but the software engineering channels presumably do not draw such varied backgrounds. So why?

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Re:Reboot Your Dreamliner Every 248 Days to Avoid Integer Ov... by glup on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @01:07PM (#17910689)
Maybe granularity -- there's only one front page for HN? I usually find that I want to read 10% of articles on the front page, but I'm often surprised by which 10%.
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Re:Reboot Your Dreamliner Every 248 Days to Avoid Integer Ov... by zitterbewegung on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @06:11PM (#17913291)
Most likely to the type and extent of moderation that is present on HN and the evolving purpose of both websites .
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