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The guidelines for appropriate posts is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "What to Submit
by steelframe 7y ago
The guidelines for appropriate posts is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"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."
- rubyn00bie 7y agoAnd further down the same page: > Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.
- dang 7y agoI'd say the article gratifies intellectual curiosity. It's a dismaying topic, of course, but not one that has appeared here much, if at all. We did edit the baity title, though, in accordance with the relevant site guideline.