[awb]

For reference, here are the current guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

As a long-time user I’ve seen the most change around “What to Submit”:

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics

> If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic

The guidelines haven’t changed but it feels like the enforcement of it has.

For example, the US government shutdown is currently on the HN top 20: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45434146

While a mainstream newsworthy story, I fail to see how it “gratifies one's intellectual curiosity” or is “Anything that good hackers would find interesting.”

[porridgeraisin]

Yeah, I too feel that anything that's TV news should be left out of HN. I mean, as an outsider (to us politics), I didn't see a whack of difference between standard twitter/instagram slop and what was on HN, for something like say, recent US elections. It was just slop here too. Not to mention most comments just quoting tweets, making most threads "RSS for twitter".

I feel like enforcing the TV news rule better is probably the best bang for the buck.

This doesn't mean all government related stuff, for example, chatcontrol is kind of tech-relevant, so makes sense to talk about it. But really? did we need to discuss charlie kirk here, or gaza/ukraine/pahalgam/what have you? Multiple times too.