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I'd be more curious to see the difference on a highly-emotional news day -- election, war, disease -- that kind of thing. Would the old guard stick to tech-related material? Or are they as vulnerable to highly-charged stories as the noobs?

In all honesty, there really isn't much going on in the way of external-to-hacking events in the world right now.

>>Daniel+(OP)
You mean like Obama deciding to fight the release of pictures of prisoner abuse by US Forces?

or

Sri Lanka's government shelling a refugee camp containing rebel fighters despite a no artillery pledge?

>>einarv+P
While both of those stories are important news, the former isn't new, and the latter doesn't (unfortunately?) have much of an appeal to most people in the West (which is where most people in HN are located).

>>einarv+P
Important general news is not automatically hacker news. This isn't Reddit, and this isn't CNN.com or BBC.co.uk.