While I don’t agree with the criticism of the person you replied to, it’s worth pointing out that Hacker News is very explicitly¹ for more than computer talk.
> 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.
> 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.
¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html