I guess I always assumed Hacker "News" means it's something semi news worthy. Interesting. I never though the "News" part meant much at all. A substantial port

I guess I always assumed Hacker "News" means it's something semi news worthy. Interesting. I never though the "News" part meant much at all. A substantial portion of the links that get highly upvoted here, and attract active discussion, are actually quite old. To my mind, the main "thing" is that submissions be interesting (for some definition of "interesting"), not that they be "news". I guess it just goes to show how different people can look at the exact same thing and interpret it differently.