Ask HN: Every article on the front page is about Steve Jobs. WTF?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3078754

by cmatthias • 15 years ago

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I realize that it's huge news that he died, but this is slightly ridiculous.

ck24• 15 years ago

Just vote for other stories then.

People need to "mourn" even if we don't agree with the overboard attention.

pseudonym• 15 years ago

The interesting counterpoint to that is that all 30 of the stories currently on the "new" page are Steve Jobs related, as well.

I'm just going to come back tomorrow, you guys have fun.

ck24• 15 years ago

Yeah you can pretty much write off any tech site as well as the first 15 minutes of any news program for the next 24 hours.

This is how the modern news cycle works, it has to burn itself out.

What I am doing is using the new bigrss feed and working from the bottom to the top.

cmatthias2• 15 years ago

Yeah, exactly, I went out to page 4 of the "new" queue and was only able to find a few stories that weren't Steve Jobs related. I guess I'll just come back later.

channelmeter2• 15 years ago

It just goes to show you how much Steve Jobs moved people regardless if people liked him or not.

ck24• 15 years ago

I've never used any apple products (at least not for more than 5 minutes before they completely turned me off)

but 56 is too young for anyone and my condolences to those who are affected by this.

bigiain• 15 years ago

Whether you use/buy/like Apple products or not - it's clear they (largely under Jobs' guidance) have been one of the fundamental forces shaping the computing and consumer electronics landscapes for over 3 decades.

The man was a giant in his industry - up there with Gates and Torvalds. The world will continue on without him, and innovation/invention/market-leadership will rise, fall, and change in spite of him. Getting accolades from the likes of Gates, Brin, Page, Zuckerberg et al shows a lot about Jobs. Getting accolades from Obama shows different things. Im my opinion, filling the first 2 or 3 pages of HackerNews says an awful lot about how people in this community respect the man.

Vale Steve.

mattm• 15 years ago

Geez man, I've only bought one Apple product in my life but this is a once in a lifetime event. Come back in a few days if you don't want to read about him.

chunkyslink• 15 years ago

Also every 'new' submission is also Steve related.

He deserves it man.

ck24• 15 years ago

I've created a filtered feed that removes "steve" "jobs" and "apple"

http://feeds.feedburner.com/hacker-news-filtered

I'll delete it after the weekend to respect PG.

Hope that helps.

cmatthias2• 15 years ago

Awesome, thank you!

channelmeter2• 15 years ago

http://www.siliconvalley.com/ci_19049516

Ask HN: Every article on the front page is about Steve Jobs. WTF?

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