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some people dislike this, others hold the opposite opinion
From the guidelines
> 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, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
An interesting example is the results of the US presidential election often sitting at the #1 spot for a while
many submissions span both and the HN community is on average pretty good about filtering wheat from chaff
if you find content inappropriate for HN, flag it, hide it, and move on