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Completely OT but somehow relevant in my mind: this kind of submission getting up symbolizes how HN is now becoming mainstream - there is nothing even marginall
by kshatrea 11y ago
Completely OT but somehow relevant in my mind: this kind of submission getting up symbolizes how HN is now becoming mainstream - there is nothing even marginally "hacker" about this post - unless they were using some cool new optic fiber to make the statues "invisible".
- brianwawok 11y agoI am not sure the main focus of hacker news is really hacking, it is more "VC backed startup stuff".. then various world news on top of that. When I hear of hacking I think of either black hat (which is basically not discussed at all here) or tinkering (which is discussed here, but maybe a little bit less than good ol slashdot).
- gioele 11y agoFrom 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. > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. I guess the guidelines are not so strict.
- dang 11y agoDon't worry, this is just the lapping of eternal waves: stories get posted, stories get flagged. One of the biggest threads yesterday was about an obscure binary sound-control protocol. Most of the apples still fall close to the tree.