>IMHO, this goes against the raison d'etre of this site. It really doesn't. >On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more t

>IMHO, this goes against the raison d'etre of this site. It really doesn't. >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. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html I'll also add that "politics" bans are always a struggle. My best example was a small social network I was on with other folks who like computers. People often posted every day events in their lives. One day someone posted how their local government had banned adoptions for people like them. This was a serious blow to them and a very personal event. BUT some folks felt like it was politics because ... politicians had passed a law. To them of course this fit just fine with the typical personal blogging that occurred, the event very much impacted them personally and not mentioning it because some people didn't want to "see" politics made no sense. The usual divisions occurred, folks who didn't find the law objectionable felt it was "just politics" and others felt it was more than that. But let's assume HN is just "tech" (it's not but let's assume) while HN might not do a lot of personal blogging, dramatic government change certainly impacts tech... and the personalities involved in recent events very much involves tech.