I don't think it fits the guidelines. > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had t

I don't think it fits the guidelines. > 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. In particular, it ought to be intellectually interesting, not just emotionally compelling. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html