I for one enjoyed reading this story. Interesting that the story diverges from the movie that was recently made in which it is Spassky that wanted to move to a different location as a result of noise generated by the ventilation system
May it always be thus.
I know HN seems like a technology news site - it even has "news" in its name! - but it's not.
> anything that gratifies one's
> intellectual curiosity.
I've learned there's always a(n associative) trail of comments (sometimes from more than on thread) leading to such apparently random posts.
My understanding is that if it's in the front page, the community has decided it's interesting and a cool read, so no need to complain.
Sometimes that's true, sometimes it's just an uptick of submissions for the same url (multiple submissions count as upvotes) because it's popped up somewhere else such as reddit.
A famous wunderkind shunned by all because of his "politics" (read: flaming bigotry)? It's pretty much HN catnip.