I completely agree. This isn't a place that people should come for live updates on current events. There's plenty of sites that already cater for that - please use them. This isn't a general interest news site.
I read the post just a day or so ago about how the news are bad for you and make you unhappy. I thought to myself 'good for me that I knew that already and have limited my news intake to HN and HN only'.
There we go - looks like it's not possible to be on a strict news diet but keep oneself updated with tech news only.
