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> 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 m
by surprisetalk 3y ago
> 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.
Anything that "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" is on-topic on HN :)
Wikipedia happens to be a great neutral resource to share curious media/phenomena that others might not know about.
- Hizonner 3y agoI saw that movie when it came out, and it did not gratify my intellectual curiosity.
- gatlin 3y agoShame, it's a brilliant film.
- effingwewt 3y agoMaybe try again? I saw it many times as a child and rewatch it every few years. Feels more prescient every time. Still, options will differ.
- derstander 3y ago> Anything that "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" is on-topic on HN :) Yeah — sure. But I’m with the parent comment to which you replied. Sometimes I’m not sure if I’m just coming across one of todays “lucky 10,000” [0] or if there’s another reason why something old has resurfaced and, if it’s the latter, it’d be nice to know the context. [0] https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/