The guidelines suggest different criteria for what constitutes "Hacker News" [1], specifically the first paragraph: "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would

The guidelines suggest different criteria for what constitutes "Hacker News" [1], specifically the first paragraph: "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." Also in the guidelines: "Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did." [1]: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html