It's pretty hard to focus on pure hacking (including interesting articles not about startups) when something glamorous like startups is on everybody's minds. pr

It's pretty hard to focus on pure hacking (including interesting articles not about startups) when something glamorous like startups is on everybody's minds. programming.reddit.com has been pretty good about sticking to pure programming stuff, but perhaps as long as Hacker News is affiliated with Y Combinator and the startup world, we'll never be able to build a pure hackers' community... simply because startups are so cool and garner impulsive interest. Maybe there should be a separate hacker.news.ycombinator.org, similar to a sub-Reddit? Edit: Again, when I say "pure hacking" articles, I don't mean just stuff about programming. I mean anything that is "generally interesting to hackers", like jey mentioned in his comment.