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Re:Five-year-old boy stopped on highway driving from Utah to... by chrisco255 on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @10:35PM (#23087425)
In my mind it's not really a technical article at all. Usually when we cover current events they have some connection to either science or technology and have some sort of intellectual quality to them. This story strikes me as an amusing news article that I'm sure is going viral on every social media outlet, so it feels like it's going to get plenty of exposure through those sources. That's the main thing, for me.

IF he was using Tesla autopilot to drive the car, then I'd find it HN worthy. ;-D

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Re:Five-year-old boy stopped on highway driving from Utah to... by dang on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @10:35PM (#23087432)
HN is definitely not just for technical articles. You're on stronger ground with a "they'd cover it on TV news" argument (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Then again, note that word probably (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4922426). In this case, the story is just so...uncorrelated that it manages to wrest on-topicness back from TV news. That's how I see it anyway, and of course many people disagree.

I think you're wrong about the article not being technical though. In a deeper sense it is.

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Re:Five-year-old boy stopped on highway driving from Utah to... by tvb12 on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @10:47PM (#23087475)
One of the funniest things I've read on HN is Gluten Free Antarctica (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18729224), which didn't have much to do with tech. I was glad to have come across it.
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Re:Five-year-old boy stopped on highway driving from Utah to... by dang on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @10:51PM (#23087494)
That one was correlated by author, though, because Maciej's a tech person and his articles have been prominent on HN for years—rightly so, because he's such a good writer, but not an example of the "you can't predict it from any sequence" test.
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