GP is not unhappy about topics appearing on hn that he knows little about, it's specifically about using Twitter for something like that.
Conventional media would usually come with a short introduction for those completely new to the topic. The kind that tends to lead to considerable hilarity in those who don't need it. More traditional publications sometimes even seem to aim that short introduction at a knowledge level so low that it could only make sense to future generations finding a centuries old document or to some time traveler who skipped the last decades.
Hn, with its original source policy, will tend to avoid those without even trying. Even if I think that guideline is more about avoiding derivative journalistism than about avoiding journalism. At some point going deeper to some original source becomes a trade-off and Twitter links make that conveniently graspable.
Conventional media would usually come with a short introduction for those completely new to the topic. The kind that tends to lead to considerable hilarity in those who don't need it. More traditional publications sometimes even seem to aim that short introduction at a knowledge level so low that it could only make sense to future generations finding a centuries old document or to some time traveler who skipped the last decades.
Hn, with its original source policy, will tend to avoid those without even trying. Even if I think that guideline is more about avoiding derivative journalistism than about avoiding journalism. At some point going deeper to some original source becomes a trade-off and Twitter links make that conveniently graspable.