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Off-Topic Sorry for being a spoiler, but I scan every day through hacker news to find some interesting stuff about programming, IT and startups. I'm tired of a

Off-Topic Sorry for being a spoiler, but I scan every day through hacker news to find some interesting stuff about programming, IT and startups. I'm tired of all this nytimes.com spam and low carb diet stuff.

DanBC 11y ago
I think you're wrong about this article. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. That's been in the guidelines for many years. Here's a recent post from a mod: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10606151 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10606151 > That's emphatically wrong, and the most important thing to understand about HN. Any subject is on topic as long as it is intellectually interesting. As pg pointed out when he created this site, good hackers are interested in more than startups and computing. There's a reason why the site guidelines lead with that.
gus_massa 11y ago
As DanBC explain the on-topic specter is wider, I think this is not off-topic, but I also think that there are too much stories from popular newspapers. An important detail to help the community is to upvote the good stories. That makes them float and is a small incentive for the author and the submitter. Any upvote is small, but it helps to keep the front page full of interesting stories. Go to the front page and upvote 5 interesting stories! A more difficult task is to find some stories that are about a subject you know and write an interesting comment. It's more difficult, and you have to wait until you have to say something relevant. (Pro tip: don't write oneliners, because they are usually downvoted.)

DanBC 11y ago

I think you're wrong about this article. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. That's been in the guidelines for many years. Here's a recent post from a mod: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10606151 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10606151 > That's emphatically wrong, and the most important thing to understand about HN. Any subject is on topic as long as it is intellectually interesting. As pg pointed out when he created this site, good hackers are interested in more than startups and computing. There's a reason why the site guidelines lead with that.

gus_massa 11y ago

As DanBC explain the on-topic specter is wider, I think this is not off-topic, but I also think that there are too much stories from popular newspapers. An important detail to help the community is to upvote the good stories. That makes them float and is a small incentive for the author and the submitter. Any upvote is small, but it helps to keep the front page full of interesting stories. Go to the front page and upvote 5 interesting stories! A more difficult task is to find some stories that are about a subject you know and write an interesting comment. It's more difficult, and you have to wait until you have to say something relevant. (Pro tip: don't write oneliners, because they are usually downvoted.)