Well I personally think Hacker News needs a little bit of real world news injection. After all technology's and startup's main role in society is to solve real world problems. Talk about a news bubble, we techies love to live in a world where, social apps, chat apps, killer new languages get created without much change from the previous nth iterations. Look around, the word is bigger than that. And if you want to created the next killer X app you better expand what you read.