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Comment by shadowpwner | Hacker News Reader

This is beautiful, and I'm a photography buff, but how does this have anything to do with startups or hacking?

I personally always make exceptions for the cosmos. Nearly everyone here spends all their time and their money and their whole lives dedicated to machines, to computers, to glowing rectangles.

It's very good to sit back - even if you're still looking at the computer - and remember what's out there.

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.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Thanks for the clarification, not too sure why you were downvoted.

While I agree with you, I think it's due to submissions such as this that end up leading to things like the recent submission "Solving the Hacker News Problem" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2252152

I guess sometimes we get caught up sitting at our desk, hacking around and forget to appreciate the world beyond the internet?

Frankly, anything that causes one to give pause and ponder the universe has at least some intrinsic intellectual -- or more accurately, perhaps, philosophical -- value. And that, beyond mere tech, startups, and hacking, is one of the driving factors behind the HN community, as the reader feedback to this link clearly demonstrates.

Many of these awesome time lapse sequences are shot with hacked Canon cameras running custom firmware.

http://magiclantern.wikia.com/wiki/Magic_Lantern_Firmware_Wi...

http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK

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