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"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 mi
by cwal37 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."
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- toomuchtodo 13y ago> If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." Excellent wording. That's exactly what a Hacker is all about.
- cwal37 13y agoI agree, it's a good mission statement for the site, but it can get lost in the general HN haze of Silicon Valley and web startups. I work in a very different part of the country on very different things than the majority of HN as far as I can tell, but I do enjoy reading the comments and articles posted here. It bums me out when people are down on things that don't fit within that SV sphere.
- toomuchtodo 13y ago> I work in a very different part of the country on very different things than the majority of HN as far as I can tell, but I do enjoy reading the comments and articles posted here. It bums me out when people are down on things that don't fit within that SV sphere. Agreed. Hacker News doesn't always mean Silicon Valley News.