Poster mahmud probably deserve a lot of respect but without context his post and the comments are useless for me, and I guess it should be the same for other occasional lurkers that happen to not know what Maxim is, nor live in the US.

Please don't misinterpret, I don't feel I have any position to say what HN should or shouldn't be, and I know that these meta-level comments are not welcome, because they do not add anything useful to the discussion. It's only that, from time to time, I have felt myself "excluded" from the HN community, because I'm not living the same life, reading the same newspaper (I read none), etc.

On the other hand, when I re-read Paul Graham's essays, they are really the kind of food for the mind that any open minded guy, reading enough English, would enjoy. It is a kind of "Humanisme" a la Diderot, that is worthwhile, that I like to find on HN -- End of the "I feel lonely" complain.