http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more t

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > 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. If it weren't interesting to the users of this site, it wouldn't be on the front page.