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This is interesting, however I was wondering if it is a topic for HN? "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of
by dimitrideag 12y ago
This is interesting, however I was wondering if it is a topic for HN?
"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 cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- Artemis2 12y ago> some interesting new phenomenon > 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. This clearly applies to this, as votes have spoken.
- seizethecheese 12y agoIf votes alone can speak, why are guidelines needed?
- TallGuyShort 12y agoA common topic (and an on-topic one at that) during the last olympics was the technological locking down of the media surrounding the event (e.g. NBC in the US). The interest in the IOC's corruption is probably connected to that.