Me too, I specially enjoy posts about monetization/customer acquisition etc. I was a little sad when it was renamed to Hacker News from Startup News.

Right on, Zaid. Andrew over at TechStars was setting up a more startup-focused, discussion-focused social news site under TS. Not sure what's going on with that lately, though. (btw, not to sidetrack, did you know that the article profiling me that was on the Boston Globe front page opened with you?)

Perhaps they figured out that copying both YC's business and their news site would be a bit over the top?

We set up something to play around with http://vanillaforums.com/. Not sure if we will open it up and run with it.

Interesting discussion on the direction of hacker news, I see value in both.

Was it Startup News before this? Wow, that name would have been great!

I interpreted Hacker News to be news for hackers, not necessarily news about hacking.

Edit: I see that sli posted the same thing farther down. My bad for not reading the whole thread first >.<

I am the opposite - I am more interested in algorithms, techniques and innovative approaches to problems. Though I do read some startup material - to see if the problems I have ran into are pointed out and how to avoid them.

For me it's the mix that does it, a bit more of the one or the other is fine.

I agree, I like the mix. Some stories are about hacking on cool new technologies, with some stories on startup problems, acquisitions, announcements, etc also.