I'd attribute at least some of that to HN users being weighted toward engineerin...

		bell-cot 36 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, ... I'd attribute at least some of that to HN users being weighted toward engineering-ish jobs. "Major Outage at US-East-1" news is something we are paid to pay far more attention to than "All is Well at US-East-1".