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• na85 12y ago
  From the submission guidelines: >What to Submit >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. Also from the submission guidelines: >Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think a story is spam or off-topic, flag it by clicking on its "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you think a comment is egregious, click on its timestamp to go to its page, then click "flag" at the top.
• sophacles 12y ago
  From the guidelines: 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. Also from the guidelines: Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think a story is spam or off-topic, flag it by clicking on its "flag" link. Sometimes it's OK in a community focused on a topic like "tech things" to remind everyone that something exists. Also, as HN is growing, and as a large portion of the people on this site are young (e.g. recent grads, new in the programming field, or even still undergrads) this is their first exposure. It's ok that we get beginner level articles - e.g. most of the tutorials linked here describe stuff that has been around for a long time and tutorialed many times before. It's still ok. It gets people exposed in a way that is useful. Us old hands can add to the discussion by pointing out new features, or better articles or advanced stuff. It's much more productive than complaining that "i already knew this".