"Hacker News" is a bit of a misnomer. Submissions need neither be for hackers (in the strict, "person who uses computers to gain unauthorized access to data" se

"Hacker News" is a bit of a misnomer. Submissions need neither be for hackers (in the strict, "person who uses computers to gain unauthorized access to data" sense) or even current. From the guidelines: 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. Edit to add: HN also strongly values civil, constructive discourse. Given some of your other comments, I suspect what you're interpreting as censorship is the community reacting to the tone and language of your comments. Also, while there has been plenty of politics on HN recently (for a variety of reasons), HN isn't primarily for ideological discourse: HN members are likely reacting to that, as well. I get the impression that this isn't your first account on HN. If that's the case, I hope you can find HN to be productive for you as part of the community with this new account.