...whats "on topic" for HN?

dsr_ · 2026-08-10T11:35:18 1786361718

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.

kergonath · 2026-08-10T14:06:32 1786370792

> If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Or, if you want to be less philosophical: anything that other people would upvote and not flag.

tkfoss · 2026-08-10T19:52:20 1786391540

I feel like the cocktail recipes site posted falls closer to on-topic than off-topic then, having only Ingredients and Recipes pages, not even a blog...