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The criterion is along the lines of something that may be of interest to hackers. Not necessarily as hackers, but to them in general. All communities either be

The criterion is along the lines of something that may be of interest to hackers. Not necessarily as hackers, but to them in general. All communities either become conservative and lock in around a few norms and aggressively police them or become liberal and become about anything and everything. There is no healthy middle. I mean why should economics and housing and finance topics be of interests to hackers?

unethical_ban 5y ago
It's kind of a community feel - I think HN has done a good job of flexing occasionally to allow non-tech news around cultural influences. The Rolling Stones are one of the most influential rock bands of the past half century and that is potentially worthy of discussion. I think housing and economy and finance are even more appropriate at times, especially when discussing topics that affect the average person - wonky, technical discussions that take a lot of thought and processing of second order effects.