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“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.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

So, you'd be ok with me posting an article from Breitbart.com or zerohedge.com etc.? I'm sure I can find something there that meets that loose definition.

Edit: this is a legitimate question. Why is is being downvoted?

Predominantly political or ideological sites tend to be banned, regardless of which flavor they favor.

Major media sites and journal sites that have a mix of political/ideological content, current affairs, and the occasionally intellectually interesting article, are downweighted but not banned—precisely because we want that occasionally interesting article.

Beyond that, the answer to your question is just plain "randomness". The answer to most questions.

You can post it and then see if it gets upvoted, or flagged. But once the link is up, it is considered poor form on HN to post a comment critical of the publication from which the article comes, instead of the claims in the article itself. This has been HN’s culture for many years now.

Yes, and you put that very well.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

I'm pretty sure at least one of those is on an autoban list of some sort and probably both are. HN is what it is and I can't say I disagree with that particular decision. There are certainly other forums where those types of sites are more welcome.

If it’s factual and interesting, certainly, and I can always click hide or skip past if not of interest to me. Why can’t you? Why the emotion about something so inconsequential? Not rhetorical questions, genuinely curious.

The site rules are what they are. Besides, I'm not sure your search will be as fruitful as you imagine, mostly because reality has a well known liberal bias.

"Factual". Ok.

since we're quoting:

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. "

Farming == BAD is a political topic. As one of the sources in this article says:

“We’ve been studying some of this stuff for decades,” she said. “We already know what needs to be done.”

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