On: All about Woad

Is there some reason I am missing that this is on the front page?

What to Submit 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, 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.

The website here, at least in its mobile incarnation, is all but content-free.

You're missing something then, because the sidebar contains links to detailed instructions on growing woad plants, extracting woad dye, dyeing with woad, the chemistry of woad, the history of woad, pictures of woad-dyed materials...

It's one of the old-school breed of "labor of love" informative websites that HN often waxes poetic about. And it's very interesting!

Try setting "desktop view" in your browser if possible on mobile devices, as the mobile website is spectacularly uninformative.

Desktop isn't much better.

Typically because it was upvoted enough.