"If you have an idea that seems to be more "Hacker News" than "Hacker News", go build it and draw and audience and trounce this site. That's the beauty of Web 2

"If you have an idea that seems to be more "Hacker News" than "Hacker News", go build it and draw and audience and trounce this site. That's the beauty of Web 2.0 ;)" I'm thinking about it. The problem is that I don't want to spend any time thinking about nor running a news aggregator site. And no, Web 2.0 is not "the dominant outlet for most hackers to practice their craft" -- it is the dominant outlet within the self-selecting set of hackers who follow Paul Graham. For the most part this means web developers in their early 20's -- which is also Web 2.0's core audience. I didn't intend the question seriously, it's more just to poke fun at the Web 2.0 centric stories that appear here. It depresses me that this site focuses so incredibly much on Web 2.0 and not on science/software in general. If the site wasn't so damned Web 2.0 centric, neither of the Quotably stories would have made it to the front page. I'd say 95% of Web 2.0 stuff is made just to appeal to other Web 2.0 enthusiasts and not really to any large audience. I'm not saying that there shouldn't be niche stuff to serve Web 2.0 enthusiasts -- just that it's disproportionately large.