Re:Sand Cat
by jessriedel on Thursday December 03, 2015 @05:24PM
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Even though you're right that
> HN isn't a tech-and-startups-only site,
it's not true that
> Anything that grabs HN attention... is appropriate.
That's why there's moderation. This is written down:
> 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, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
> HN isn't a tech-and-startups-only site,
it's not true that
> Anything that grabs HN attention... is appropriate.
That's why there's moderation. This is written down:
> 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, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't think this link is of any intellectual interest. It's just cuteness.