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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 mig
by sehr 12y 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.
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.
- itistoday2 12y agoI agree very much. I didn't find this interesting, nor did it gratify my intellectual curiosity. Glad it's off the front page. Would be terrible if HN devolved into a mess of posts about how dumb and hateful random comments are on the internet and turned into another outrage generating machine (just like the TV news you mentioned). BTW, here's a nice HN alternative that someone pointed me to recently (for those of us that are sad to see what HN is devolving into): https://lobste.rs https://lobste.rs