Fortunately, not everything on HN is "an allegory about a startup". We still get some interesting articles on non-startup related material. Personally, I'm her

Fortunately, not everything on HN is "an allegory about a startup". We still get some interesting articles on non-startup related material. Personally, I'm here for the hacking content, not the startup content, although I'm occasionally interested by something from the startup camp. I've been wondering, and no insult to the startup oriented crowd out there, if it would be possible to add a 3 tag system to HN posts; "startups", "hacking", "other". The guidelines[1] state "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups" which, in a naive sense, means that the simplest classification scheme would be the 3 terms listed previously. This would allow a simple search query such as "-startups" to exclude posts tagged exclusively with "startups", or "-other -hacking" to include only posts tagged exclusively with "startups", or "+startups" to include any post with the tag "startups" etc. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html