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Re:IT Runs on Java 8 by scarface74 on Saturday May 11, 2019 @12:15AM (#19884511)
Hacker News ranks at #959 in the US. It didn’t get that rank from just being geared toward startups with Tier 1 engineers.

Look on the front page right now and see how many stories are about startups. That didn’t change in the last five years. It’s always been about technology in general.

HN’s front page 10 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-05-10

HN’s front page 5 years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2014-05-10

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Re:IT Runs on Java 8 by wildermuthn on Saturday May 11, 2019 @11:58AM (#19886775)
We’re both making points based off anecdotal experience, so who knows. I have been a reader for the last 7 or 8 years, but my experience is just one subjective data-point.

Having said that, the most apparent change to me is in the tone and substance of the comments rather than the front page. And it isn’t a huge change. Just noticeable for me.

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Re:IT Runs on Java 8 by scarface74 on Saturday May 11, 2019 @01:17PM (#19887238)
You don’t have to use anecdotal experience. You can use the same link format for any day that Hacker News existed and see the same thing.
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Re:IT Runs on Java 8 by wildermuthn on Sunday May 12, 2019 @11:53AM (#19892640)
HN archives are stored in BigQuery, so it would be possible to do an analysis that was more rigorous than a human reading the thousands of front pages to see a pattern of difference.
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