> If its interesting to people who read HN, it belongs on HN. Completely false. If that were true, there would be no need for guidelines. In fact it says, "A

> If its interesting to people who read HN, it belongs on HN. Completely false. If that were true, there would be no need for guidelines. In fact it says, "Anything that good hackers would find interesting" which is not semantically equivalent to "people on HN". If everyone on reddit signed up for an account today, by your interpretation HN would be full of pun threads and cats and that would be acceptable.