Did you read that? Because it doesn't contradict what I said. You probably meant this: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinato

Did you read that? Because it doesn't contradict what I said. You probably meant this: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html And that doesn't mention computer science either. Instead it says this: > 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. Note that this doesn't even mention technology, just "startups" and "hacking" (which to be clear isn't specifically about technology either).