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Comment by jamra | Hacker News Reader

What a beautiful story. I come here to Hacker News to get tech related aggregated content. The kind of thing that you don't go out looking for but still say "Ooh, that's interesting". I really don't want to relive my experiences with cancer here. Why on earth did someone think this is hacker news worthy content?

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Crawl back under your desk and sleep some more, then eat some stale pizza and continue hacking.

Who needs a life anyway?

'Why' questions are always the hardest.

Peace be with you on your journey!

I found this story immensely enriching and thought-provoking, which is (in theory) why I read most of the things I read. Win.

It is a commonly made point that the crowd here work on "trivial" things. I think the OP injects some perspective.

Relevant content to Hacker News is "Anything that satisfies a person's intellectual curiosity." It's not just about technology, it's about interesting things. Which, I think, is what makes HN as valuable as it is.

On an unrelated note, your username means "is whining/complaining" in my native language (Slovenian) and I found that interesting given the context.

> "is whining/complaining" in my native language (Slovenian)

It's jammern in German, jamre in Norwegian and Danish, and jämra in Swedish. The Scandinavian versions and modern German all comes from Middle Low German. I'm guessing you got the word from German at some point too, as the German version originated from a version without the leading "j".

"jammeren" in Dutch, too.

That's also how Yammer gets so much success from :)

So on an unrelated note, you attack my name ad hominem. Thanks man.

I didn't attack your name, it's just an interesting observation.

Your comment was not just an interesting observation. It was also, obviously, a personal attack. Those are not allowed on HN.

I agree, but a mechanical explanation is that there a lot more people on HN then before and a lot less technical people. 20 up-votes would be 2 in the before time.

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