[meta] Hacker News has become a kind of Reddit "General news and curiosities for techies", far from its initial goal: > Hacker News Guidelines > What to Submi

[meta] Hacker News has become a kind of Reddit "General news and curiosities for techies", far from its initial goal: > Hacker News Guidelines > What to Submit > On-Topic: [...] If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. > Off-Topic: [...] If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. Well, this post is off-topic, but at least it's in the "News" category. Other front page posts look more like exotic curiosities (e.g. "The puffer fish helmets of Kiribati", or "Bizarre Talmudic Scenarios").