> 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.
That's a uselessly broad criterion. If I want to read about literature there are dozens of other specialized sites with much better informed contributors. The value of this site depends on a meaningful focus.
If you do not like the criteria that he uses to run his site, then possibly you would be happier using a site with different criteria, or forming your own site?
In the many years I've been reading and posting here this criterion has been interpreted to imply subjects that have some intrinsic interest to hackers. It's symptomatic of the decline of HN that this focus is increasingly diluted but the dearth of worthwhile comments on this thread suggests I'm far from the only one that doesn't care.
