You're almost completely correct, except for the "interesting to hackers" caveat in the guidelines.
Even with the caveat, this is probably still off-topic. Except that a lot of readers probably ride.
But still it's probably off-topic.
Except ... I've noticed a lot of weekend posts that are both off-topic and interesting, and I tend to see weekends on HN as a brief relaxing of the rules. Which I like.
You're almost completely correct, except for the "interesting to hackers" caveat in the guidelines.
Even with the caveat, this is probably still off-topic. Except that a lot of readers probably ride.
But still it's probably off-topic.
Except ... I've noticed a lot of weekend posts that are both off-topic and interesting, and I tend to see weekends on HN as a brief relaxing of the rules. Which I like.