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've re-up-voted you because I don't think your question deserves to be at -4, even though it doesn't really add value to the site.
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I've re-up-voted you because I don't think your question deserves to be at -4, even though it doesn't really add value to the site.