Ask HN: Why HN does not have categories for news

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I'm tired of reading about non-Hacking news, such KGB double agent, volcanoes, etc.

why not having categories like:

Hacking

Tech

Business

Startups

Politics

Environment

and an article can fall under multiple categories

Make it simple, no more than 7-8 categories

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Or just go to lobste.rs instead.

To save you time, here's the link: https://lobste.rs/

It's really become a knee jerk to post whatever news they find interesting here.

It's annoying as hell.

From the guidelines:

What to Submit

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

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