tejaswiy, I'm one of the people you can blame for posting stuff like this and you can check the 'submissions' link in my profile for further confirmation. --I've probably submitted on every topic you've listed, and I do so because I consider them interesting and useful.

I'll agree such news is all too often lacking depth and details, but oddly enough, that is the point of a quick news writeup. If the topic interests you enough to do more work, at least you know about it and can now make the choice if it is worth the additional effort and expense since a lot of research sits behind paywalls.

The value of the detail-free "news" articles is simply knowing about the various advancements being made. Even if you have little interest in the topic and mostly forget about it tomorrow, just knowing about it might be really beneficial at some later time. You just never know when trivial and useless minutiae about on-going research and development will suddenly become important knowledge. --When faced with some related problem, you may just recall reading about new and related R&D that can be applied.

After all, terms like "hacking" and "hacker" are nothing more than a marketing push to use sexy-cool names for "Research and Development" and the people who do it.

If research and development news doesn't interest you, that's fine, but if so, then why are you here? --This isn't intended as an insult in any way. I'm actually very curious about what you want HN to be? I'm particularly curious because I seem to be (in part) responsible for the "problem" you mentioned.

What would make HN better for you?