news.yc is not just a news aggregator. It's also a community, one which is populated by people whose opinions I value more than those on general news aggregator

news.yc is not just a news aggregator. It's also a community, one which is populated by people whose opinions I value more than those on general news aggregators. I might not be reading about Tim Russert's death for the first time, but I might still read something insightful about it that I wouldn't have seen elsewhere. You could fill the front page with articles about knitting, and if you could still get the same group of people to hang around, it would be still be more interesting than a typical day on Digg.