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"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. "

~Hacker News Guidelines.

Seriously, calm down. It might be old, but I still found it interesting to reread. Don't like it, don't read it.

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This does not gratify one's intellectual curiosity within the context of hacker's news. You forget that this place is explicitly designed to avoid the denigration that happened at other sites.

By your logic, anything that's upvoted would 'count', though that's been explicitly verboten.

Compare and contrast -this- post with the recent post about car detailing. Neither are "about" hacking. But in one, an individual's using all the tools available to do something sublime. In the other, we have a long-circulated e-mail about non-productive slacking. Gee.

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