I don't think things are so drastic: On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to r

I don't think things are so drastic: 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. Item 1. certainly seems to fit the bill. Item 2. not so much. However, given the growth HN appears to have experienced over the last 6 months the signal to noise ratio nothing short of remarkable.