I think of the "new" in the "news" in "hacker news" as being like a used clothing store in my home town called "New to You".

HN is for anything that gratifies intellectual curiosity. Sometimes that's news in the common sense, but often it's more obscure things, and those are also welcome.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Oh, I thought of it as "news" and was confused

Just to give some context to why you're being downvoted, read the first paragraph of the "Hacker News Guidelines", titled "What to Submit"

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity

Wow, inCREDibly vague. I thought this was a news site, thank you for clarifying.