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mohanmcgeek | 3 years ago

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hknapp|3 years 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.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

ra7|3 years ago

Also in the guidelines.

> 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.

This story is surely closer to politics than to intellectual curiosity?

veonik|3 years ago

There's a ton of posts on here completely unrelated to programming, why not this one too?

mohanmcgeek|3 years ago

yes. Let's turn this place into r/technology

MrBlueIncognito|3 years ago

I agree, despite being happy about the issue reaching a broader audience. I wish there was a HN for politics. Maybe we have Reddit for that.