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Re:Off-Topic: the non-technical side of Hacker News by benoq on Monday October 19, 2026 @07:56PM (#50159580)
Strange. I find most HN non technical. The technical commentary is often opinionated, sometimes factually/technically incorrect. Even in aspects of programming and even something as commonplace as React, it’s amusingly wrong. Don’t ask anything about biology, health or fitness.

Actually overtly technical content is in places like, for example, hackaday. Or science.com

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Re:Off-Topic: the non-technical side of Hacker News by himerzi on Monday October 19, 2026 @08:04PM (#50159645)
For what its worth I think the filtering that Off Topic does is quite imperfect, and leans towards having more false negatives.

Heres an example of real posts that got filtered out:

- Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch: 3,237 pts - Git commands I run before reading any code: 2,338 pts - Ghostty 1.0: 2,319 pts - AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1: 2,246 pts - Zed 1.0: 2,153 pts - Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code: 2,127 pts - U.S. homelessness jumps to record high (scored 7) - Macron says €300B in EU savings… (6) - Mysterious New Jersey drone sightings (6) - Celebrities say they are being censored by TikTok (5.5) - Google will still have to break up its business (4.5) - Japanese scientists develop artificial blood (4.5)

Its not just filtering non-technical things, also posts that just report something.

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