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> Hacker News Guidelines > What to Submit > […] > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of som
by QuantumNomad_ 5mo ago
> Hacker News Guidelines
> What to Submit
> […]
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- ceejayoz 5mo agoYou think a major tech titan noping out to Argentina after burning down the system isn’t an interesting phenomenon?
- moscoe 5mo agoI wish this were enforced broadly. Tired of seeing politics on the front page. I come here to avoid that crap.
- baal80spam 5mo agoYes, 100%.
- cherry_tree 5mo agoCan you describe what your idea of a “hacker” and their associated interests might be?
- arvid-lind 5mo ago> Tired of seeing politics on the front page. I come here to avoid that crap. Well, I quite enjoy getting this community's perspective on current events and political topics. I wish more people would care about the ways these things intersect with their areas of interest and expertise. One man's crap, I guess!
- rbanffy 5mo agoI come here for a fresh perspective on a lot of things, politics being one of them. When techbros hook themselves deeply into the government, entirely bypassing the political system, gaining unchecked power without any representation to back it up, I’d think it’s well inside a hacker’s interests. At least, they pwned the government very thoroughly.
- OutOfHere 5mo agoYou don't get to use that selectively for things you disagree with.