From the guidelines: "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting."

It took me years to understand this dynamic, so of course I'd be interested in how the reasoning is wrong. But hn@ycombinator.com would be a better place to communicate that at this point.

Btw, if you're going to tell someone this, you should say why. Otherwise they can't learn and the comment is uninformative.

"Pretty predictable" is already something different, and those topics have a steady influx of new information to mutate them at least somewhat.

The other factor, of course, is the heat with which these things burn. When they burn to a crisp, the crisps are all the same.