> 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. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The parent is just surprised it made it to the front page, not suggesting that it isn't an appropriate submission.

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