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I believe you're wrong here. HN is not just about tech. It has always had room for substantive articles about anything interesting. Is this article substantive?
by gruseom 13y ago
I believe you're wrong here. HN is not just about tech. It has always had room for substantive articles about anything interesting. Is this article substantive? I'd say it's surprisingly so, for such a short piece. It contains a mix of anecdote, data, and history. I learned three or four things I didn't know, and I've read occasional stuff on this issue in the past.
The graph alone is worth the visit.
- yareally 13y agoEconomist is also a quality news source. I'd rather have articles from the Economist make the front page over sensationalist/uninformed tech articles from The Register or similar sites that lack substance.
- vacri 13y agoA wider variety of topics also occasionally spurs an HN denizen to start implementing a solution, even a startup around the 'non-hacker' stuff.
- a_bonobo 13y agoFrom the official FAQ [1] >What to Submit >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. [1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html