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For sure this is interesting, but it's curious that articles of this sort are appearing on HN with increasing frequency. There used to be purely tech news, now

For sure this is interesting, but it's curious that articles of this sort are appearing on HN with increasing frequency. There used to be purely tech news, now it seems that anything interesting qualifies for an up vote.

beardog 10y ago
"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."
- lostlogin 10y ago
  A post like the parent and a reply of the guidelines happens multiple times per weekend. I wonder when the complainers will notice the pattern and accept it.
  - mikekchar 10y ago
    New people come along all the time. I was also confused by the guidelines. Possibly they need to be in a more prominent place.
sillysaurus3 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html HN is for anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. The only time it was purely tech news was when it was called Startup News.
DanBC 10y ago
Two people have posted the guidelines. Here's the guidelines from 2008, which shows that this intellectually curious thing has been there for many years. https://web.archive.org/web/20080616133301/http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://web.archive.org/web/20080616133301/http://ycombinato... > 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.
icebraining 10y ago
Check out pg's (the creator of this site) own submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=pg https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=pg The first page alone includes articles on the migration of monarch butterflies, boardinghouses, income taxes by US counties, doodles by medieval kids, health benefits of eating nuts, and more.
kryptiskt 10y ago
Nonsense, this is of huge interest to any startups and other tech companies using RFC 2549 [1] in their tech stack. [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2549 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2549
Razengan 10y ago
For what it's worth, I love reading HN, compared to other news sites. It's a refreshing change from say, Reddit's technology subreddits, which are a continuous regurgitation of the same old Comcast, Google, Apple and Microsoft opinions every single day; a thinly-veiled political and astroturfing soapbox at best, where anything remotely interesting in regards to what we're learning about this universe and how our technology applies to it, barely gets above 50 points. "Tech" is not just computers.

beardog 10y ago

"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."

lostlogin 10y ago
A post like the parent and a reply of the guidelines happens multiple times per weekend. I wonder when the complainers will notice the pattern and accept it.
- mikekchar 10y ago
  New people come along all the time. I was also confused by the guidelines. Possibly they need to be in a more prominent place.

sillysaurus3 10y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html HN is for anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. The only time it was purely tech news was when it was called Startup News.

DanBC 10y ago

Two people have posted the guidelines. Here's the guidelines from 2008, which shows that this intellectually curious thing has been there for many years. https://web.archive.org/web/20080616133301/http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://web.archive.org/web/20080616133301/http://ycombinato... > 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.

icebraining 10y ago

Check out pg's (the creator of this site) own submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=pg https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=pg The first page alone includes articles on the migration of monarch butterflies, boardinghouses, income taxes by US counties, doodles by medieval kids, health benefits of eating nuts, and more.

kryptiskt 10y ago

Nonsense, this is of huge interest to any startups and other tech companies using RFC 2549 [1] in their tech stack. [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2549 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2549

Razengan 10y ago

For what it's worth, I love reading HN, compared to other news sites. It's a refreshing change from say, Reddit's technology subreddits, which are a continuous regurgitation of the same old Comcast, Google, Apple and Microsoft opinions every single day; a thinly-veiled political and astroturfing soapbox at best, where anything remotely interesting in regards to what we're learning about this universe and how our technology applies to it, barely gets above 50 points. "Tech" is not just computers.