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>The guideline that "we should post things hackers [users] would find interesting" was good a decade ago, now we've good a ton of people that post their favourite long form articles and Twitter posts. I don't care for history, commentaries on society or personal philosophy musings with my code.

Do you believe the only thing hackers should find interesting is "code?"

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No, but that kind of leeway is what kills sites during an Eternal September. And no one ask for proof you're an hacker to open an account here (thankfully I might add). Hacker in the guidelines is just a synonym for user.

Again, I don't want to force HN to limits its discussion to tech _only_, I'm just saying that I think it's getting more and more diluted.

Yeah, the ideal HN post should be fascinating for hackers and deathly boring for everyone else. Ragebait draws masses who could easily swamp the signal:noise of any thread here.

No, but I am with the person you are replying to that if a higher percentage of the content had to do with hacking it would make HN a more interesting place.

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