Despite the name, HN has never been constrained to stories about IT, tech and startups. It's the first sentence of the guidelines: "On-Topic: Anything that go

Despite the name, HN has never been constrained to stories about IT, tech and startups. It's the first sentence of the guidelines: "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."