> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. —https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html This is not an interesting new phenomenon, it's a variation of "affirmative action" and other programs of the same nature. Some people will call it addressing systemic discrimination, others will call it discrimination. A few decades ago, the expression in favour was, "reverse-discrimination." It has absolutely been covered on TV news and in newspapers going back decades. In any event, it is not about startups, or hacking. Nor is it particularly interesting, or new. It's just throwing red meat on the front page to generate karma.