What's the Purpose of Hacker News to You?
jacquesm: It's not what it is, it is what it isn't:- political news
- sports news
- 'entertainment' news
- and so on...There are plenty of places that have all that HN has and more, it's the lack of the 'more' that makes HN a good place to hang out.edit:And of course the people here... there seems to be on the whole less immature behaviour here than elsewhere (though it does happen).