[ksvs]

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[NathanKP]

Right. I would place this under "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity," thus it is on-topic. That said I'm interested in some intellectual discussion on the article now that we have pretty much concluded that it is on-topic.

[icey]

Here is a nice reddit thread for you:

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/8jwno/why_i_am_g...

[tptacek]

No, I don't think I'll be visiting Reddit today, but thanks for letting me know it's being talked about in the fever swamps too.

[NathanKP]

I read it:

It's probably better than the other shit that doctors would put him on.

That's why I use HN not Reddit.