Why “village” is being discussed
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I understand where you're coming from and I think that gut reaction is appropriate. My name is Luke Bodmer. I graduated in June with a PhD in Computational Science from the Univ…
by lukehandcool · Oct 8, 2026
It takes a village to raise a child and if you don't have that expanded support structure, just having one can be overwhelming.
by onlypassingthru · Oct 8, 2026
The village head typically prefers people from his own village. Not rocket science.
by vachina · Oct 8, 2026
One thing they probably don’t need are bad unhappy professionals uninterested in their field. The people from the village know better than us random internet commenters what the…
by latexr · Oct 8, 2026
> I haven't though of documenting actual data points about this yet. I think that's a good idea. Any ideas on where to start? I think it’s important to be careful with this. “Wh…
by latexr · Oct 8, 2026
If the kids all have better lives, isn't that a good thing? What is noble about an impoverished village where everyone just exists?
by SoftTalker · Oct 8, 2026
Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "village" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "village" over time.
A village is a human settlement or a residential community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town; some geographers describe villages as having between 500 and 2,500 inhabitants. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings, however, transient villages also exist. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement. Read more on Wikipedia