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I think these posts are the #1 encouraged kind of item to submit to HN when you read the newsguidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https:
by cryptoz 7y ago
I think these posts are the #1 encouraged kind of item to submit to HN when you read the newsguidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
So I think it is your expectation with HN that may need to change, as I would be shocked to see this content disappear. It's exactly "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups.", the first sentence of the guidelines.
- SilasX 7y agoThat means things that hackers as hackers would find interesting. There’s significant overlap between hackers and “men who could benefit from dating advice” but that doesn’t make dating advice topical. The same logic applies to historical curiosities.
- whatshisface 7y agoI think some dating advice made it to the front page a while ago, it was a link to someone's wiki of life lessons.
- dang 7y agoYou're interpreting the guidelines too narrowly. Historical material has always been welcome here: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0&query=by:dang%20"historical%20material" https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... One way of looking at this is that the contours were originally defined by what pg's own intellectual curiosity (https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html). He knows more about history than probably anyone I've ever met.
- SilasX 7y agoSure, I guess what bothers me more is how indiscriminate it is, like how Atlas Obscura just gets fast tracked to the point that it (and related oh-so-clever) stories make up a disproportional share of the links.