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How is this article related to Hacker News?
by asdsa5325 8y ago
How is this article related to Hacker News?
- swebs 8y ago>Hacker News 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. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- noncoml 8y ago"If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
- TheSpiceIsLife 8y agoThat might have been a relevant metric 10 years ago, but all sorts of tech and health news now gets screen time.
- asdsa5325 8y agoI posted a BBC article about mental health and it received complaints about being off-topic and it was removed.
- yesenadam 8y agoProbably an article's involving the USA increases its perceived on-topicness. Although a large majority of people on here aren't from or in the USA, 'Americans' on here often talk as if it's a 99.5% US discussion taking place on US soil.
- Iv 8y agoMany of us go to China on a regular basis. Some people may even consider living there. Knowing that it is now not that bad of a place to raise kids is interesting.