> 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.
I guess the guidelines are not so strict.
When I hear of hacking I think of either black hat (which is basically not discussed at all here) or tinkering (which is discussed here, but maybe a little bit less than good ol slashdot).
One of the biggest threads yesterday was about an obscure binary sound-control protocol. Most of the apples still fall close to the tree.