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    in Y Combinator’s Hacker News, most posts about the Palestinian genocide get flagged within minutes

    It’s a programming/technology forum. It’s very off-topic and I expect that kind of subject to stay away from it. The bane of the modern internet is newbies posting random stuff all over the place without RTFM and without lurking more.

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      It allows world news too, since not all hackers are laser-focused in technology, and it’s normal to be interested in how the real world goes.

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            And right now the top ten has 7 tech links, one article about mediocre scientists advancing science, one about a very old car, and one about the Texas Stock Exchange.

            All these are on-topic and actually encouraged in HN.

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          Listen MacFlaggy, how about you read the site’s guidelines before making such sweeping statements?

          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.