> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups.
Certainly if it's not interesting to the community, it wouldn't get upvoted enough to make it very far.
Also, HN can't be a site about everything, or it becomes a site about nothing, no different from any other news aggregator out there.
The theme of tech and startups and stuff directly related to them (like legal issues) needs to be enforced, and is.
Mind candy posts like this get unthinking upvotes, and that is exacerbated b/c unlike reddit, you can't un-upvote after you've thought better of it. Hence the mods cull posts like this, and the community flags it to help the mods catch it.
> Certainly if it's not interesting to the community, it wouldn't get upvoted enough to make it very far.
It could garner enough votes to make it to the front page, then collect enough flags to drop off. The population of users who watch the "new" feed isn't always identical to the population of users who watch the front page.