Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes • Hacker News Board

Re: Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes

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Post by tkfoss » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 7:52 PM UTC

dsr_ wrote: post #36

tkfoss wrote: post #32

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...whats "on topic" for HN?

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

I feel like the cocktail recipes site posted falls closer to on-topic than off-topic then, having only Ingredients and Recipes pages, not even a blog...

Re: Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes

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Post by chickensong » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 8:36 PM UTC

tkfoss wrote: post #31

chickensong wrote: post #22

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I feel the same, but it's an unavoidable cycle IMHO. Any subculture that becomes popular gets diluted by more average people, and the content becomes more basic and banal. You can flag and downvote, but eventually there are enough people who treat a platform like HN as a general discussion board, without regard for cultural alignment. It seems that stuff like politics and random recipes are on the rise, but it's not…

Just because you might prefer coffee or soylent doesn't mean some other hackers don't like cocktails. Make yourself some https://entropia.de/Tschunk and relax!

You've missed the point. I enjoy cocktails, and I even think the linked page here is nice, both in cocktail selection and page design, but I don't think it particularly belongs on HN.

Here's an example recipe page that does feel appropriate to me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48408854

I'm not trying to win any wars here, I only provided a possible explanation to someone's question. Culture evolves and that's fine, or maybe the ratio of technical vs non-technical content is actually stable on HN? I really don't know, but to me it feels like the the volume of random content and low-grade comments is increasing. Personally, I don't think that represents the spirit of HN, but my comment was downvoted so either I'm wrong, the culture has shifted, or the mainstream is already the majority here.

I'm a fan of the Caipirinha however, so thanks for the Tschunk recipe.

Re: Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes

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Post by IAmBroom » Tue, Aug 11, 2026, 12:20 PM UTC

blfr wrote: post #21

Very cool. French 75 is more interesting in its original formulation based on cognac rather than gin though. https://tuxedono2.com/french-75-cocktail-recipe

Gin is the original formulation.

The cognac version is either called a "French 75 with cognac", or a "French 125".