Sure, it's not about news in that sense. Is that not clear from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html?

Not really. The fact that "Off-Topic" is even necessary shows that "On-Topic" is not particularly clear. Different people find different things interesting and have their intellectual curiousity gratified in different ways. And a lot of stuff appears unflagged on HN that falls between the two categories.

You seem to have this personal weird exception to the guidelines, which is "Please submit the original source... unless it's a corporate press release." ;-) But you still allow meta-links about corporate press releases, which may put the PR in larger perspective but don't otherwise clearly gratify intellectual curiosity.

Of course people find different things intellectually interesting, but a site dedicated to intellectual interest is still a completely different thing than general news.

I'll diss the corporate press release any day! Beyond that I'm not sure I follow your specific point. What do you think we should do differently?

> Beyond that I'm not sure I follow your specific point.

The question is why HN allows a meta-link about a corporate PR (for example, a Verge story about the PR, since you don't like the direct link) but not something like this? Why is "Corporation X announces Y" intellectually interesting, but this isn't?

If by "this" you mean today's Elon drama, I've already answered that at length:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35060935

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35061369

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35061343

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35060863