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Re:The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race (by Ja... by davidw on Thursday August 16, 2007 @04:15PM (#43187)
It's not that bad a link... it just seems so drastic a change:-/ It seems also to illustrate that the intersection of interesting startup links is very well defined, whereas the intersection of interesting 'hacker news' is rather less well defined, and will probably be more prone to disagreement, even if the people posting are the same ones as with the old yc.news, because our interests and beliefs are likely to be quite varied.

Add to that people who didn't see or take part in the original, and while I hope the change will go ok, it will be a lot of work.

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Re:The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race (by Ja... by mangodrunk on Thursday August 16, 2007 @07:50PM (#43269)
>news interesting to hackers generally.

Obviously hackers have found this interesting, but I agree it is on the border of being irrelevant. I think it is useful to use PG's rule of thumb that if it's covered on TV news then it's off topic which I think this is an exception to.

I like this new direction that yc is taking, the site was rather boring to me before which I barely frequented until I saw that it changed on reddit.

I shouldn't come here to often because each time I read something by PG I feel like quitting my job and starting a company.

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Re:The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race (by Ja... by davidw on Friday August 17, 2007 @06:55AM (#43421)
I think part of what bugs me is that it's also somewhat sensationalist, which is why reddit keeps reposting it.
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Re:The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race (by Ja... by Tichy on Thursday August 16, 2007 @04:27PM (#43196)
The filtering by the wise guardians probably hasn't yet kicked in, either ;-) Time will tell if the filter mechanism will help to move hacker news into a specific (desired) direction.
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Re:The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race (by Ja... by davidw on Thursday August 16, 2007 @05:08PM (#43205)
OTOH, people did vote it up, and I don't think it was bad... just... oh who knows, I can't figure it out. Back to hacking on Hecl.
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