> But here goes: XKCD. Dilbert. Cute girls with funny technology T-shirts. One thing I like about Hacker News is that a high percent of articles teach me somet

> But here goes: XKCD. Dilbert. Cute girls with funny technology T-shirts. One thing I like about Hacker News is that a high percent of articles teach me something valuable about technology or business. I like that XKCD rarely if ever comes up here, even though I go to the xkcd site maybe once a month and catch up when I just want to laugh, and will likely see the most insightful xkcd comics embedded with blog posts. Likewise, a small percent of Dilbert gets linked here - most of the links are to Scott Adams' essays, some of which are pretty insightful. Likewise, cute girls in a humorous way is available everywhere, and doesn't teach on technology or business. I'll go to Reddit when I want to laugh, the Reddit frontpage usually has something funny right on it, like this one right now: http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/c6evn/winner/ http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/c6evn/winner/ Or maybe I'll go to /r/relationship_advice, which is unintentionally hilarious with blind-leading-the-blind advice, though I am forced to cringe, login, and give a drastically different opinion at times, which can be a time sink. Anyways, long story short: Signal-to-noise ratio on practically useful things here is quite high. Maybe it's slipped a tiny bit, but it's still probably between 50% and 80% potentially valuable. It seems like it used to be 80%+ valuable, so the slip is a shame, but this has got to be the best site for both potentially practically beneficial while still be entertaining/stimulating/not too dry.