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https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html This fits "Anything that good hackers would find interesting.
by Practicality 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This fits
"Anything that good hackers would find interesting."
"anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
Major world events are pretty much always on topic. We just don't need minor regular news events here.
- mbesto 10y ago> "Anything that good hackers would find interesting." "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." So that can literally be anything... > If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. This caveats it nicely. This is certainly off-topic for HN.
- mynameisvlad 10y ago> probably off-topic Probably !== certainly. The only people who can really speak to something being certainly off-topic are the moderators.
- flukus 10y agoJavascript or PHP?
- mynameisvlad 10y agoHeh, didn't even realize it, but JS (well, Typescript.)
- criley2 10y ago"Major world events are pretty much always on topic. We just don't need minor regular news events here." Sure, it fits, but HN is a notoriously inferior general news site. If you heard about this first here, you're ill informed. If this was your only source for this news, you're VERY ill informed. It's a shame, HN first descended into being basically just a Reddit Subreddit hosted on a differently URL, and is now morphing into reddit.com/r/reddit.com (the anything-goes general reddit subreddit) with a slightly more technical audience. Considering that the most useful link/comment in this thread is a link to a vastly superior, just incomparably more useful and informing reddit link, I think the point is made quite nicely. Oh well, I guess HN is a wrapper around Reddit these days.