> You won't read about the habits, diets and anxieties (housing, options, politics, tools, city life, commute) of people from berlin , moscow , paris, melbourne, while you learn the people, areas and streets of SF by name.
Is that even true? I feel (as in: likely a misperception) that I learn more about life in Berlin these days on hn than from real life, and I have visited many times, trains run twice an hour and I have friends and family there. Sure, there's the occasional council level politics topics about some SV thing but that's rare.
Plenty of platforms offer hard focus on a topic, for any topic, no scarcity on that front. The achievement of hn is broadness of scopewithout losing identity. It's great.
Is that even true? I feel (as in: likely a misperception) that I learn more about life in Berlin these days on hn than from real life, and I have visited many times, trains run twice an hour and I have friends and family there. Sure, there's the occasional council level politics topics about some SV thing but that's rare.
Plenty of platforms offer hard focus on a topic, for any topic, no scarcity on that front. The achievement of hn is broadness of scopewithout losing identity. It's great.