From the HN guidelines [1]: > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce i

From the HN guidelines [1]: > 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. I think the submission qualifies. > Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did. Ironically, your comment probably goes against the guidelines though; and mine's probably not great, either. The overall idea seems to be "not too much meta discussion". ---------------------------------------- [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html