Disagree. The police interviews are designed to get people to say things that will get them convicted. This is a hackable system -- a social hack, but a hack nonetheless. (It might also be argued that the real hack is the police interviews where they trick people into giving up their 5th amendment rights.)

Also, the video is extremely interesting in its own right.

That's a good point, but I think it's a stretch to argue that this is on topic. If the point of the submission was the social hacking aspect it might be better received if the headline reflected that. As is, a submission like this would be much more appropriate on Reddit or Digg.

I dissagree. This is more news suited for reddit.

I'd sooner quit using the Internet altogether than scour the main Reddit or Digg page for things to read.

Yes but if those articles come to Hacker News so you don't have to go to Reddit, why would you keep using HN?

The best way to know if something is off topic, and indeed the best reason not to post off topic stuff, is if you think the community will spend more time debating whether the article is on or off topic than the article itself.

"Not Hacker News" is hn's equivilent of "First".

No, "Non-scribd link: http://*.pdf" is the HN equivalent of "First".

lol. True.

Although, I wouldn't say it if I could just downvote it.

But you do not have to be the very fast, yet.

From the HN Guidelines: "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups."

RTFG

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This IS hacker news. It is closely related to a certain creator of a certain file system who refused to exercise his 5th Amendment rights and is now formally convicted of murder.

I'm not convinced that "how to kill your wife and not get caught" is really hacker news, though...

If a certain someone had read it, the OS community would have been better off...

Are you being facetious?

I think most people agree that people who kill someone ought to get locked up, even if it isn't convenient.