HN has never been a forum about just technology, that’s what makes it great. From the guidelines: > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting

HN has never been a forum about just technology, that’s what makes it great. From 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.