There's nothing edifying about yucking other people's yums. If many others are upvoting something, and you don't see why it's interesting, maybe it's OK for the

There's nothing edifying about yucking other people's yums. If many others are upvoting something, and you don't see why it's interesting, maybe it's OK for the situation to be as simple as that: it's interesting to others even though it isn't interesting to you. Also, there is absolutely no requirement that HN submissions all qualify as newsworthy. As others have pointed out in this thread, the gist of what's considered appropriate is quite simple and broad: "Anything that good hackers would find interesting."