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"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or c

• tzs 13y ago
  "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."
  • tptacek 13y ago
    What interested you in this article?
    • tzs 13y ago
      I didn't mean to imply that I was personally interested in it--just that there are more guidelines sections that apply. There have been quite a few discussions here recently about banks, regulation, income inequality, and that sort of thing, and these have drawn enough up votes and enough comments to indicate that they are of interest to many people here. It seems plausible to me that most of the people who found those things interesting enough to be HN-worthy would also find this HN-worthy.