> Do you believe ghosts are topical at HN?
For the Hacker News Guidelines - "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity". That's probably the reason I thought it is OK to post this question on HN.
> For the Hacker News Guidelines - "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".
They also say: "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
The phrase you quoted from the guidelines probably causes more confusion than it prevents, because IMHO it means anything that would gratify a hacker's curiosity, but it isn't worded that way.
I always obey the writer's rule -- before posting something, for a while I read what others post about, to find out what's really topical.
> Absence of proof can't be proof of absence.
Learn about the null hypothesis -- the scientific precept that assumes an idea without evidence is false. It saves huge amounts of time in the game of sorting out everyday reality.