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.
And yet, the original submission was just another version of the trope I used AI to boost my productivity 10 fold, and it was all roses and butterflies.
After the n-th iteration of the same self-congratulating, hype-pushing, AI-generated drivel, the point can be made that the original submission does not meet the HN guidelines.
If the article isn't fit for HN, people can flag it, and if they really want to, they're welcome to email us at hn@ycombinator.com to point out what's wrong with it and we'll consider further penalties.
Comments like the one I replied too just make HN seem mean and miserable and that's definitely something we're trying to avoid.
The first paragraph of said guidelines reads:
And yet, the original submission was just another version of the trope I used AI to boost my productivity 10 fold, and it was all roses and butterflies.After the n-th iteration of the same self-congratulating, hype-pushing, AI-generated drivel, the point can be made that the original submission does not meet the HN guidelines.
To quote Jimmy in South-Park: it's an ad.