I rarely post this, I usually just let things go. But quoting from the guidelines[0]:
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.
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
It may be true, and it's in the news, but I don't see how it "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
If you rich and famous allowed to get away with it. With regards to the other activity - any "commoner" would have "long ago" been "swiftly extradited" to United States for a court case to face his accusers. Andrew was a protected species because rich and famous.
It seems there must be more such people hidden in these paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein papers ....
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.
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
It may be true, and it's in the news, but I don't see how it "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html