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Forgive me in advance for stirring the pot yet again, but I thought this site was called "Hacker News" because it's meant to carry news of interest to hackers.

by wensing 18y ago

Forgive me in advance for stirring the pot yet again, but I thought this site was called "Hacker News" because it's meant to carry news of interest to hackers. In which case it makes sense that this will ebb and flow between tech, finance, politics, et al. in keeping with the stories of our times. Right now it's finance, but I'm willing to claim that this is temporary in light of what's going on in our world. How does one determine the boundaries between financial markets and venture capital, politics and net neutrality, etc.? Whatever we do, please let's not make this site into another one of those inhospitable "I'm moving your post to the Financial News discussion forum" types. In other words, is there a plan in anyone's mind to stop people from submitting financial posts to HN? Btw, cool site, nickb.

ntoshev 18y ago
To me, financial news is on topic for hacker news, as long as they provide some insight into what is going on. Plain facts are borderline, silly jokes and complaints are offtopic. Personally I'm going to submit posts from Nickbs's and Mattmaroon's sites here, as long as they meet the criteria above. I already did with the alternative energy post (not because I agree with the author, but because he provides an interesting to me point of view, I haven't considered energy density before). If these are really offtopic here, they will get killed/not upmodded, but I don't think so.
nickb 18y ago
Thanks! I'm totally with you on this one: HN needs to cover whatever's interesting. But the thing that spurred me to finally put this thing out there is the dearth of business-related (not necessarily financial) stories on HN. For example, just the other day, I posted this: "Seven Ways to Fail Big" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=315327 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=315327 Anyway, it got 1 point here even though I thought it was a great article that you can learn a lot from. Anyway, I've been waiting for someone to pick up some slack and start a site of their own but haven't seen anything come out in the past year.
- ced 18y ago
  Thanks for your contributions, but personally, I am fed up with the "business tips" topics. They may be practical and useful to someone with a startup, but they are otherwise not very intellectually stimulating.

by wensing 18y ago

ntoshev 18y ago

To me, financial news is on topic for hacker news, as long as they provide some insight into what is going on. Plain facts are borderline, silly jokes and complaints are offtopic. Personally I'm going to submit posts from Nickbs's and Mattmaroon's sites here, as long as they meet the criteria above. I already did with the alternative energy post (not because I agree with the author, but because he provides an interesting to me point of view, I haven't considered energy density before). If these are really offtopic here, they will get killed/not upmodded, but I don't think so.

nickb 18y ago

Thanks! I'm totally with you on this one: HN needs to cover whatever's interesting. But the thing that spurred me to finally put this thing out there is the dearth of business-related (not necessarily financial) stories on HN. For example, just the other day, I posted this: "Seven Ways to Fail Big" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=315327 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=315327 Anyway, it got 1 point here even though I thought it was a great article that you can learn a lot from. Anyway, I've been waiting for someone to pick up some slack and start a site of their own but haven't seen anything come out in the past year.

ced 18y ago
Thanks for your contributions, but personally, I am fed up with the "business tips" topics. They may be practical and useful to someone with a startup, but they are otherwise not very intellectually stimulating.