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

From the HN submission guidelines [1]: 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. Curebit's follies definitely interest hackers in two ways: - How far is too far when 'Keeping It Lean'? - How important is design to startups? Off-Topic: ... If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. Can't really prove a negative here, but this is certainly the sort of inside baseball that belongs on a startup-focused medium and not on broadcast television. Edit: It could be that this is the ballyhooed YC naughtiness [2] at work: Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye. They're not Goody Two-Shoes type good. Morally, they care about getting the big questions right, but not about observing proprieties. That's why I'd use the word naughty rather than evil. They delight in breaking rules, but not rules that matter. This quality may be redundant though; it may be implied by imagination. [1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html [2] http://paulgraham.com/founders.html http://paulgraham.com/founders.html