If you are wondering whether the submission is appropriate for HN, it's always good to review the guidelines: > What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good ha

If you are wondering whether the submission is appropriate for HN, it's always good to review the guidelines: > What to Submit 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. Ideological or political battle or talking points. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. Another I ask myself is what I expect (not hope) the resulting discussion to look like. Is it constructive and civil? If it passes these, I think in general you can feel confident that the mods (and the HN community) will find it useful.