If we're gonna be all arsy and quote the guidelines, they explicitly define as off-topic:
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
I think nature pictures are roughly in the same category as cute animal pictures, as far as HN is concerned.
If we're gonna be all arsy and quote the guidelines, they explicitly define as off-topic:
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
I think nature pictures are roughly in the same category as cute animal pictures, as far as HN is concerned.