Do posts appear on HN or Reddit first?

Posted by akozlik on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @10:25AM
from the self-post dept.

I've noticed a lot of articles appearing on both sites, often within minutes of each other. I want to subscribe to either a Reddit feed or a HN feed to minimize redundancies. I'd rather go with the site that breaks news first, so which would it be? Which site breaks news?

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Re:Do posts appear on HN or Reddit first? by gaustin on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @10:31AM (#1979306)

If it's within minutes, does it truly matter? Also, neither site really "breaks" news.

Anyway, to answer your question...

You will probably have to measure it, if you want. Should be too hard. Another, better, solution might be to generate and publish a feed that combines the two, without the redundancies. You could even include links to the separate discussions.

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Re:Do posts appear on HN or Reddit first? by bobf on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @07:39PM (#1981322)

Reddit "breaks news first" for the vast majority of stories, simply by having a much larger userbase. I see HN as being far better filtered though, with higher quality comments and signal/noise ratio.

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Re:Do posts appear on HN or Reddit first? by noodle on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @10:49AM (#1979372)

depends on what type of post. there's plenty of stuff that doesn't show up here or doesn't do well here that shows up on reddit and does well, and vice versa. the crowd is similar, but different.

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Re:Do posts appear on HN or Reddit first? by grasshoper on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @05:49PM (#1980993)

It's definitely Reddit most of the time. It's a larger site.

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Re:Do posts appear on HN or Reddit first? by antonioe on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @10:44PM (#1981791)

If you mention wikileaks or aethism then of course reddit.

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