For what its worth I think the filtering that Off Topic does is quite imperfect, and leans towards having more false negatives.
Heres an example of real posts that got filtered out:
- Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch: 3,237 pts
- Git commands I run before reading any code: 2,338 pts
- Ghostty 1.0: 2,319 pts
- AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1: 2,246 pts
- Zed 1.0: 2,153 pts
- Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code: 2,127 pts
- U.S. homelessness jumps to record high (scored 7)
- Macron says €300B in EU savings… (6)
- Mysterious New Jersey drone sightings (6)
- Celebrities say they are being censored by TikTok (5.5)
- Google will still have to break up its business (4.5)
- Japanese scientists develop artificial blood (4.5)
Its not just filtering non-technical things, also posts that just report something.
Heres an example of real posts that got filtered out:
- Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch: 3,237 pts - Git commands I run before reading any code: 2,338 pts - Ghostty 1.0: 2,319 pts - AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1: 2,246 pts - Zed 1.0: 2,153 pts - Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code: 2,127 pts - U.S. homelessness jumps to record high (scored 7) - Macron says €300B in EU savings… (6) - Mysterious New Jersey drone sightings (6) - Celebrities say they are being censored by TikTok (5.5) - Google will still have to break up its business (4.5) - Japanese scientists develop artificial blood (4.5)
Its not just filtering non-technical things, also posts that just report something.