It seems a common misconception that HN submissions must or should be news. From the guidelines under What to Submit: "Anything that good hackers would find int

It seems a common misconception that HN submissions must or should be news. From the guidelines under What to Submit: "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." The guidelines also say stuff like "Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate", "Please don't post shallow dismissals", "Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community" etc.