[DanielStraight]

It's off-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"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."

[personjerry]

Email hacks, especially around Clinton, have historically been very on-topic, and like the faq says, anything intellectually interesting is on-topic.

[gus_massa]

I've see one of two of them, but they are from sites that have all the submissions [dead] by default. Do you have an example to make the discussion more concrete?

The problem with "anything intellectually interesting" is that it may include politics or not, it depends on the definition you are using, but I think it's off topic here. The interaction between politics and technology is in the borderline.

(Another example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12156778 Is this on topic? I stared at it like 30 seconds because I was no sure.)

[personjerry]

This post in particular: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12154841

I had to vouch for it before it got any interest at all.

[gus_massa]

I read the article. It looks like a discussion about corruption inside a political party. It has some side accusations to the Russians, but without any proofs. The discussion about the email server and hacking is very small. I think it's a political article.

A few weeks ago there were articles about the configuration of the server, and IIRC how the hacker could enter it. I think that were on-topic.

I also remember an article that correlates the number of emails in the official Clinton's email and in the unofficial. Most of the times the number is correlated, but they spot some strange non-correlations that signal a possible erasure of some emails. It was a little conspiracionist and I'm not sure the analysis was 100% right, but I think that were on-topic.

[personjerry]

Hm, fair enough. Thanks for the analysis!

[dangrossman]

I'd flag that post. It belongs on CNN, not HN.