In the many years I've been reading and posting here this criterion has been interpreted to imply subjects that have some intrinsic interest to hackers. It's sy

In the many years I've been reading and posting here this criterion has been interpreted to imply subjects that have some intrinsic interest to hackers. It's symptomatic of the decline of HN that this focus is increasingly diluted but the dearth of worthwhile comments on this thread suggests I'm far from the only one that doesn't care.