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by carbocation 971 days ago
The standard that you're describing is not really the standard that most HN'ers hold submissions to. The guidelines[1] suggest the following:

> 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.

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