The new submission guidelines define on- and off-topic as follows: On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking

The new submission guidelines define on- and off-topic as follows: 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 The first highlight is the good, general rule, the second highlight the one that applies to the submission in question, in my opinion.