All this stuff is in flux. I thought a lot about whether to add the "edited" bit - but it may change. What I deliberately left out was anything about the articles and projects that get submitted here. There's a lot of turbulence in that area too, but we don't yet have clarity, or even an inkling, of how to settle that one.
Edit: what I mean is this: while most of those submissions aren't very interesting, some really are. Here's an example from earlier today:
All this stuff is in flux. I thought a lot about whether to add the "edited" bit - but it may change. What I deliberately left out was anything about the articles and projects that get submitted here. There's a lot of turbulence in that area too, but we don't yet have clarity, or even an inkling, of how to settle that one.
Edit: what I mean is this: while most of those submissions aren't very interesting, some really are. Here's an example from earlier today:
Show HN: Vanilla JavaScript refinery simulator built to explain job to my kids - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47338091
How do we close the aperture for the lame stuff while opening wider for the good stuff? That is far from clear.