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"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 mi
by CivBase 6y ago
"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."
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- detaro 6y ago"Off-Topic: [..] If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." (and it appears previous submissions of this indeed did get flagged. Wheareas an after-the-fact analysis of the causes IMHO would be on-topic) (But also: "Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it.")
- nana- 6y agoI speak out if I want to, in this case I feel in discomfort with this news and my usage of HN which is only tech related.
- nana- 6y agoIs there an option to hide tech unrelated news ?
- robin_reala 6y agoNo.
- eganist 6y agoNot generally, but if there's a thread you just don't want to see, there's a "hide" link among the links underneath the thread title. Just search for hide on the page and it'll be the first result.