Don't make me tap the sign: On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce

Don't make me tap the sign: 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. This satisfies people's intellectual curiosity, therefore it's "Hacker News."