I know it's hard to imagine but not everybody acts purely in self-interest. I'm also supportive of this, even though I'd be taxed more.

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.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics … unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon

This passes both tests.