It's not irrelevant. Look through the HN guidelines [1]. Articles like this are definitely acceptable. - Hacker News Guidelines - What to Submit On-Topic: A

It's not irrelevant. Look through the HN guidelines [1]. Articles like this are definitely acceptable. - Hacker News Guidelines - 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