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> 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 m
by Shared404 4y ago
> 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.
From the HN Guidelines.
Note the lack of the pattern "new" anywhere in there.
- Normille 4y ago>Note the lack of the pattern "new" anywhere in there. Er... it's literally the name of the site, 'Hacker NEWS'. A 16 year old article is not news. No matter how interesting it might be. The custom here is to put the year in brackets after the title, when posting an old article
- Shared404 4y agoNonetheless, the guidelines allow for such things - and I'm grateful they do, as I enjoyed the time I spent reading this article and am smarter now than I was beforehand. I do agree that it should've originally had the year added when originally posted.