The standard that you're describing is not really the standard that most HN'ers hold submissions to. The guidelines[1] suggest the following: > On-Topic: Anyth

The standard that you're describing is not really the standard that most HN'ers hold submissions to. The guidelines[1] suggest the following: > 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. 1 = https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html