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

This is the paradigmatic example of Not HN Material, guys. Please don't submit stuff like it or upvote stuff like it, or else we're going to have to wade through pages and pages of all-heat-no-light politics to get to the things which (on a good day) make for valuable discussion here.

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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.

Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link.

and yet, we have no way to positively identify anybody here as an Hacker, we must put up with secret infiltrations by non-hackers who upvote non-hackish stories.

Please don't submit stuff like this.

Not on that, but the formatting on iPad in unreadably awful.

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