The neat thing about HN is that I can nearly always find at least one thing on the front page that's useful to me, especially if I read the discussion.

Just looking through now, Canine is interesting because it's similar to Dokku, which I already use. I might consider using Canine in a similar role in the future if I want k8s with buildpacks.

The Dull Men's Club groups aren't like that. The needle to hay ratio is far worse. It's all "huh, cool" coincidences and mysterious objects, but nobody really intends to show the world anything useful.

The standard on Hacker News is intellectually interesting.

“I saw geese,” ordinarily wouldn’t meet it (though in imagined contexts it would, of course).

Or as described in The New Yorker, HN is often about performative erudition, as perhaps is the case with this GEB’ish sentence.

Nothing is completely irrelevant. It's just very hard to point out when and where some post on HN about properly frobnicating a wickie [1] server in a data center in South Baluchistan will subtly help your development decisions at your current or future job.

[1] What is a wickie server? Damned if i know. But I'm sure there is someone on HN who has done one.