Because, "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

Because, "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." quoted from [1]. [1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html p.s. It feels like a very interesting problem to detect irony.