[elisharobinson]

as opposed to being a marketing tool for YC

[AA-BA-94-2A-56]

Which begs the question, what do you all consider to be high quality content for this site?

[gHA5]

I realize it's the opposite of what this site is about, but the greatest enjoyment I've gotten from HN was always from discussions about non-technical, everyday life stuff where things get surprisingly deep. Two posts that stood out to me in recent memory were

1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30161578, a discussion about the hardships of becoming a farmer. I especially liked dpatru's comment: "The natural state of man is poverty.[..]".

2) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27038139, a discussion about the diamond industry. Linked is a comment thread about a guy buying a synthetic diamond for his wife and the ensuing trouble. There were numerous quality discussions about social interactions and psychological differences between the sexes. A salient meta comment by akarma: "[..]it's like you expect all women in your life to be like many people on HN — hyper-rational, utilitarian devs who would never want a mined diamond because a cheaper artificial one with better clarity exists[..]"

[zamadatix]

I always like the the non-work focused hacking posts about something interesting/surprising being achieved the most. For a famous example https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times...

[chakkepolja]

1. Cool programming stuff, not involving politics or corporate politics flamewars. Generally narrowly focused on one task. (Make discussion more general and framework / language bikeshedding starts.)

2. Career related stuff. It can be useful. But sometimes it too feels like echo chamber.

[0des]

I don't know, but I can guarantee it is written in Rust.