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.
If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)
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I almost think that you are intentionally trolling, but I will link to and quote from the HN guidelines in response to your comment:
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Was just kidding. Sorry...