What to Submit
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.
Because https://xkcd.com/1053/ applies to dupes and "old news", but not being a dick.
What's the origin of that comic site? I like it.
Well son, sometimes when a man and a pencil love each other very much,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xkcd
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HN is HN.
From the Guidelines link at the bottom - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html