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by DrJokepu
6002 days ago
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http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "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." "Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link." We've been through this over and over again. There's Hacker Hacker News on top of Hacker News that's using Bayesian Filters (as far as I understand) to display technical topics only: http://hackerhackernews.com/ |
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"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports"
This is clearly a non-exhaustive list.
"unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon"
This phenomenon, as pointed out by the article itself, is not new.
Moreover, it is not interesting to hackers for any reason other than being generally interesting.
"If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic"
This is exactly the sort of thing TV news would cover.
Yes, I was wrong to submit that comment according to the rules. I flagged the article, but when it has already reached #2 you know it's not coming down.
Hacker News died a little bit more yesterday in accepting that _Off-Topic_ article.