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That's not the rules > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a
by kcb 5y ago
That's not the rules
> 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.
- mindcrime 5y ago> Off-Topic: ... If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
- unethical_ban 5y agoI would say the demographic of HN, being a plurality of American males, grew up watching football called by Madden or played videos games with his name on it.
- krapp 5y agoThere's a reason intellectual gratification is the bar and the goal for topicality, not emotional catharsis or pop-cultural notoriety. If simply being popular with American males became the standard, this place would degenerate into Reddit.
- unethical_ban 5y agoI think the occasional discussion of a notable person's death is an exception to the rule. I think this would be a less controversial opinion if the deceased were a well known artist, but because Madden "only" is an icon to three generations of people by shaping the game of football and sports video games, it's too pedestrian.
- Simon_says 5y ago>> anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. And yet here we are.