Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

How does the submission fit the guidelines you posted?

It’s not relevant to hackers or startups. Why is a woman to report on d day on hacker news? Because it’s a woman? I can’t figure out what is relevant to this community

It fits the guidelines by gratifying intellectual curiosity. Your idea of what counts as on topic for HN may be a bit too narrow. Historical material has always been welcome here! What's interesting in this case is not "a woman", but the remarkable Martha Gellhorn.

Of course, it may not gratify your intellectual curiosity specifically, but no post is interesting to everybody. The goal is more to have a front page with a good probability distribution of interestingness over a wide range of smart readers. If you don't like this post, there are 29 others on the front page, and if you run out of interesting stories there, I recommend the 'past' link in the top bar, which will show you the front pages of previous 24 hour periods, going all the way back.

lol are you really trying to imply that it's not an interesting thing that there was a woman on the ground doing journalism?

No, just remarking on the state of media that tends to focus on women or minorities and exclude men.

Journalism isn’t just what is or is not covered but what the focus of a story is.

Woah is the male, never in the news or remarked on for their accomplishment. What is with this self victimization? Aren't you supposed to be tough?

Ok then let’s not recognise her

Or, let’s focus on the story of the real hero’s of D-Day instead of trying desperately to make history fit the current narrative

Those stories have been told, and will continue to be told, long after we’re gone.