Well, I wish they weren't, because this has literally nothing to do with tech and hacking.
verdverm•8m ago
HN is not just tech and hacking though
some people dislike this, others hold the opposite opinion
From the guidelines
> 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.
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
An interesting example is the results of the US presidential election often sitting at the #1 spot for a while
andsoitis•3m ago
And you think this story falls into which category: on- or off-topic?
andsoitis•13m ago
Presence or occasional popularity are not evidence of desirability.
computerex•1h ago
andsoitis•1h ago
verdverm•40m ago
Top "israel" posts from the last year, many with over 1000 karma
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=tru...
uejfiweun•33m ago
verdverm•8m ago
some people dislike this, others hold the opposite opinion
From the guidelines
> 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.
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
An interesting example is the results of the US presidential election often sitting at the #1 spot for a while
andsoitis•3m ago
andsoitis•13m ago