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Not hacker news, but amazing story

• toomuchtodo 11y ago
  All interesting news is "hacker news" (not to be confused with "Hacker News" the site).
  • rectangletangle 11y ago
    This, threads should cover topics beyond seed funded startups, and trendy JS frameworks. Not that there's anything wrong with those.
    • vacri 11y ago
      I do miss the content of old, which was 1/3 general interest, 1/3 hacker interest, and 1/3 business development. I'm not really a business guy, but it was interesting reading about how to do things like measure retention, or A/B test things with customers, or how to read your market. These days it seems that the only business-related things are either puff pieces or people talking about salary and job interviews.
      • bobbles 11y ago
        Top 10 reasons why COMPANY sucks and you should instead come and work for COMPANY!
  • dang 11y ago
    > not to be confused with "Hacker News" the site "Hacker News the site" is for anything and everything of intellectual interest. We're always hoping for more diverse stories. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
    • toomuchtodo 11y ago
      Thank you. I didn't want to speak for HN.
    • davidw 11y ago
      You guys should really expand on what 'gratifies intellectual curiosity' means, in the guidelines. Stuff like this article is interesting, but all too often people claim how they are really intellectually gratified by an article calling Trump a doody-head troglodyte or some such thing. I would suggest that one such metric is if you learned something interesting from an article, rather than having the article simply confirm your own beliefs.
      • dang 11y ago
        > all too often people claim how they are really intellectually gratified by an article calling Trump a doody-head troglodyte I almost never see that. There's isn't much controversy around what counts as "intellectually interesting" here. People spend more effort trying wrongly to narrow the scope of HN, e.g. claiming that it's only about startups and tech, flagging all non-technical posts, etc., all of which is against the spirit of the site (and bad, in my opinion, for technical creativity too). The standards are better established de facto than de jure—the last thing we want is legalistic arguing about rules. So I think the traditional description suffices: A crap link is one that's only superficially interesting. Stories on HN don't have to be about hacking, because good hackers aren't only interested in hacking, but they do have to be deeply interesting. What does "deeply interesting" mean? It means stuff that teaches you about the world. A story about a robbery, for example, would probably not be deeply interesting. But if this robbery was a sign of some bigger, underlying trend, perhaps it could be. https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html Edit: but if there's something we could do to get more high-quality links posted about historical topics, arts and letters, geography, anthropology, etc.—the myriads of interesting stories outside HN's couple of core grooves—I would love to hear about it. They are particularly welcome and we rarely have enough of them.
        • Pyxl101 11y ago