"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."
I like that definition, and I also think that the above article satisfies it. The only problem is that not everyone may find the same things interesting...
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From 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."
I like that definition, and I also think that the above article satisfies it. The only problem is that not everyone may find the same things interesting...