Re:Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything...
by fingerlocks on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @09:23PM
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Kuro5hin?
Re:Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything...
by PaulRobinson on Friday July 18, 2025 @01:01PM
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kuro5hin just died out of becoming a weird clique of insiders developing bullying memes that they found hilarious and everyone else found tedious. I'm sad it's gone, but also very much not sad.
Re:Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything...
by CoastalCoder on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @09:30PM
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Out of curiosity, what was the site?
The only clone I'm familiar with is (defunct) christdot.org.
Re:Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything...
by gwbas1c on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @12:21AM
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Smokedot.org, in 2002.
I'll let you guess what the site was!
The problem was similar to a Goldfish group I left on Facebook: Every day someone, in a panic, would ask for help with a sick goldfish with the same exact symptoms as a post made the day prior.
Needless to say, if a community can't occasionally discuss what content it wants, and what content to exclude, it devolves. HN has a "no politics" rule. I think it's okay to discuss if other content needs to be excluded too.
Every day it was the same discussion over again, from someone who didn't bother to do a Google search or look at what was posted the day prior. After a week or so of seeing the same discussion over and over again, I stopped reading the news site.
Needless to say, it's important to occasionally have discussions like this. I also think we under-appreciate the amount of moderation that goes on here. Sometimes I look at the "new" feed and it is just loaded with lots and lots of nonsense, so I get that someone has to put their finger on the scale to keep the quality up.