The misnaming works well though. The hacker part covers all the technical posts, and the fact that it's on the YC domain covers all the startup posts.
If it was called startupnews, everyone would complain about the technical posts.
If it was called startupnews, everyone would complain about the technical posts.
"Hacker" news seems to not even be the second most popular topic of discussion here. Startup crap and politics shit both do a great job of drowning it out.
Then you have the always creepy "article about steve jobs' personal life, which has absolutely nothing to do with computing or even his business"...