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Hacker News Guidelines What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to

Hacker News Guidelines 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. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html This article is "On Topic", IMO, as per the guidelines.

ig1 16y ago
It's a minor release announcement. Where's the intellectual curiosity ? Here's a simple test: Are people commenting on the content of the story ? - I'd be curious to know how many of the people upvoting even read the release notes and how many just upvoted based on the title.
- random42 16y ago
  Please do realize that there are youngsters who come across new terms, like linux, unix, design patterns, kernel, unix, oop, functional programming, open source, SEO etc. and many others, every single day for the first time. Just because you and I have already gained (some) knowledge about these things, does not mean they will not be intellectually simulating for someone else, especially someone new to the profession/field.
radq 16y ago
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.
- ig1 16y ago
  I'm aware of that and I consciously chose to ignore it. I felt it would be inappropriate for me to flag it without publicly saying I was doing so, as I know other people might disagree and stating that I was flagging it would allow for a discussion as to whether the link is on-topic or not. If somethings wildly off-topic or just spam I'd flag it without commenting, but I think if something is borderline off-topic it's something that deserved to be discussed.

ig1 16y ago

It's a minor release announcement. Where's the intellectual curiosity ? Here's a simple test: Are people commenting on the content of the story ? - I'd be curious to know how many of the people upvoting even read the release notes and how many just upvoted based on the title.

random42 16y ago
Please do realize that there are youngsters who come across new terms, like linux, unix, design patterns, kernel, unix, oop, functional programming, open source, SEO etc. and many others, every single day for the first time. Just because you and I have already gained (some) knowledge about these things, does not mean they will not be intellectually simulating for someone else, especially someone new to the profession/field.

radq 16y ago

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.

ig1 16y ago
I'm aware of that and I consciously chose to ignore it. I felt it would be inappropriate for me to flag it without publicly saying I was doing so, as I know other people might disagree and stating that I was flagging it would allow for a discussion as to whether the link is on-topic or not. If somethings wildly off-topic or just spam I'd flag it without commenting, but I think if something is borderline off-topic it's something that deserved to be discussed.