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Re:Of Meat and Men: The Story of Two Pitmasters (2012) by DanBC on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @06:02PM (#12082580)
A lot of people think that! I don't know why, maybe it's something the guidelines need to be a bit clearer about.

It's never been about only tech. Here's dang from 2 years ago saying it's not only about tech: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7663631

Here's the guidelines from 2008: https://web.archive.org/web/20080616133301/http://ycombinato...

> 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.

If you really want to kludge it into "on topic for startups" it talks about building a brand and competing against incumbents.

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Re:Of Meat and Men: The Story of Two Pitmasters (2012) by TruthAndDare on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @06:19PM (#12082651)
> anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Do you think this post lives up to that? Aren't we setting the bar a bit low here? I don't see anything special about it.

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Re:Of Meat and Men: The Story of Two Pitmasters (2012) by jessaustin on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @06:36PM (#12082741)
Then flag it and move on; that's better for HN than very generalized complaints such as these, and much better for HN than content guideline rehashings such as thread parent's. Of course if any particular post only inspires threads like this one, that may be a negative indicator...
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Re:Of Meat and Men: The Story of Two Pitmasters (2012) by davidw on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @07:26PM (#12082934)
OTOH, it's not something that people find 'interesting' in order to make a point. "I find this article trashing Ron Paul to be... really interesting and intellectually gratifying!"
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