Re:Hacker News is 2
by dcminter on Thursday February 19, 2009 @05:52AM
(#487114)
Absolutely. I'd like to add that the killer feature for me (well, aside from the good quality links and discussion) is "noprocrast" and that I'm particularly grateful for the relatively recent removal of the "ignore" link. It's all very much appreciated.
Re:Hacker News is 2
by rkowalick on Thursday February 19, 2009 @11:30AM
(#487440)
While I'm not much of a coder, I come to this place because there a lots of interesting articles and insightful comments. It's refreshing to see such an intelluctual crowd of people on the internet for once.
Re:Hacker News is 2
by run4yourlives on Thursday February 19, 2009 @12:05PM
(#487496)
Since nobody seems to really be saying it I will:
Paul, thanks for taking the time and putting in the effort to create a website I really value. I've learned a lot over the last little bit and continue to do so.
Re:Hacker News is 2
by vaksel on Thursday February 19, 2009 @10:54AM
(#487379)
How about a hand for the moderators? They are the guys who keep the quality of this site up. Without them, this would soon just be another clone of reddit
Re:Hacker News is 2
by falsestprophet on Thursday February 19, 2009 @05:14PM
(#487951)
No, but I would like to take this opportunity to do it anyway. Reddit has become a den of melodramatic ideologues and thoughtless iconoclasts. I'm no longer a supporter.
Here are some intellectually unflattering sample headlines from the front page right now:
4. Like NASCAR Drivers, Our Politicians Should Wear Uniforms Clearly Stating Their Sponsors
5. Oh, Canada. “When statements are said that God probably does not exist, this is an implied statement of hatred towards all those who do believe that God exists.”
13. The head of the DEA spent more than $123,000 to charter a private jet to fly to Bogota, Colombia, last fall instead of taking one of the agency's 106 planes.
15. PWNED!!!
19. Citigroup, which lost $18 Billion Last year, laid off 39,000 and got a $52 Billion Govt Bailout still provides perks to directors and former CEOs such as airplanes, helicopters, and drivers costing millions of dollars per year.
20. Cousin of 9/11 Hijacker Arrested as Israeli Spy
21. Fuck the media. CBS Evening News only points to $4600 from Stanford to Obama as well as showing Bill Clinton and Nancy Pelosi. No mention of McCain's $28K or any other Republican. (1:55 video)
22. Ten years. Ten FUCKING years you've been following me. And for what? PIKACHU?
23. Woman Blinded By Acid Requests That Her Attacker Be Blinded With Drops Of Acid In Each Eye. Iranian Court Accomodates Her.
Re:Hacker News is 2
by Herring on Thursday February 19, 2009 @08:22PM
(#488139)
Have you looked at the subreddits? I spend a lot of time in /programming/ & I find that it has much better articles than HN. Or maybe it's just me, I'm more interested in code than startups.
Re:Hacker News is 2
by jon_dahl on Thursday February 19, 2009 @11:25PM
(#488307)
I used to swear by programming.reddit.com, until the discussions went the way of reddit.com. Whatever can be said for link quality, I find the discussions here 100x better.
Re:Hacker News is 2
by allenbrunson on Friday February 20, 2009 @03:30AM
(#488495)
reddit was the beginning. it was seeded by the ycombinator crowd, and it was cool. then the number of users increased, and the noise was gaining on the signal. being a for-profit company, they valued new users more than civility.
realizing that the writing was on the wall, pg created hacker news. it started off just like reddit, but with different priorities.
it's sad that reddit has become what it has, but it's run by a company with profit motives. most of us would have probably done the same thing, had we been in their shoes.
Re:Hacker News is 2
by c1sc0 on Thursday February 19, 2009 @05:20AM
(#487085)
714 days here, karma 117 and I couldn't be happier: this place is special, let's keep it that way, happy birthday to us! wiiiii ! what kind of birthday gift do you give to a website?
Re:Hacker News is 2
by bayareaguy on Thursday February 19, 2009 @02:04PM
(#487666)
Despite 14x growth, the character of the site has remained intact. So far this experiment seems to be working.
I'm not sure what counts as character and this is obviously subjective but my personal feeling is that HN's quality has taken a slight hit in the past year. It doesn't seem as unique as it once was and many of the topics that make it to the front page seem to be more formulaic. Furthermore many newcomers seem to post the same things that were raised here previously. I've lost track of the number of topics about hosting providers, credit card processing and the like. Also with the increased volume it's been hard to make effective use of the "new" page. Odd things that may interest me that don't quickly get enough attention are lost faster.
Unfortunately I predict growth and network effects will speed up this trend and 2 years from now HN will likely be much less interesting as the HN of a year or two ago.
Re:Hacker News is 2
by critic on Thursday February 19, 2009 @04:20AM
(#487041)
RMS, is that you?
I came here to say that I really like the design of this web site (despite of what some others say), but the stability seems lacking sometimes. The site is often inaccessible. I was going to suggest reimplementing everything in ASP.NET and VB.NET, but in RMS's presence, I don't dare.
Re:Hacker News is 2
by CalmQuiet on Thursday February 19, 2009 @05:17AM
(#487081)
Congratulations. It was just this new year that I lucked into HN - and it has made a huge difference to this tech-retread (me) as I seek to play catch-up in my hacking education. A great community you've catalyzed!
Re:Hacker News is 2
by kamme on Thursday February 19, 2009 @02:58AM
(#486979)
Happy birthday!
I'm happy to see that you didn't do any major changes to the look and feel of this website, most sites tend to change for the worse after receiving more and more hits. Good job!
Re:Hacker News is 2
by gcheong on Thursday February 19, 2009 @11:09AM
(#487407)
Wow 2 years. It's strange, but I can't really remember how I came to start reading HN. I know I had been reading PG's essays for a while, but there seems to be a gap I can't recall. It's kinda like the way I can't really remember when I started using Google for all my searches, I just kinda naturally assimilated it into my life.
Re:Hacker News is 2
by jodrellblank on Thursday February 19, 2009 @05:40AM
(#487103)
HN has completely dominated all other forums I used to read frequently, even the one I pay for membership at and have been hanging around for a decade. Thank you. (I think it's a good addiction).
So, what are your plans for the next year at HN and how can we help with them?
Re:Hacker News is 2
by whalesalad on Thursday February 19, 2009 @07:49PM
(#488106)
Am I the only one here who first read this as "Hacker News 2" and got all excited for a nanosecond imagining something like beta.news.yc.com with a new design and added features???
Re:Hacker News is 2
by TomOfTTB on Thursday February 19, 2009 @02:46AM
(#486964)
Honestly, there's still an argument to be made that compete.com is at least semi accurate. But Alexa is just a lost cause. It simply doesn't even resemble anything accurate anymore.
Re:Hacker News is 2
by bd on Thursday February 19, 2009 @10:15AM
(#487329)
Actually, I'm surprised it's so high (150,637 as of today).
It means quite a lot of HN visitors (which are not necessarily just registered HN users) have installed Alexa toolbar.
Which is what ultimately Alexa rank mean. It is a huge source of bias - different types of sites have very different likelihood that their visitors would have installed Alexa toolbar.
Re:Hacker News is 2
by dualogy on Thursday February 19, 2009 @10:59AM
(#487392)
zomg, never realized news was born on my birthday! Best gift I got today! (Well, almost :)
"This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius ♫ Golden living dreams of visions ♪ And the mind's true liberation"... well I'm no mystic but I just love us aquariuses!
Happy birthday!
Long may it continue :)
Paul, thanks for taking the time and putting in the effort to create a website I really value. I've learned a lot over the last little bit and continue to do so.
Job well done.
Here are some intellectually unflattering sample headlines from the front page right now:
4. Like NASCAR Drivers, Our Politicians Should Wear Uniforms Clearly Stating Their Sponsors
5. Oh, Canada. “When statements are said that God probably does not exist, this is an implied statement of hatred towards all those who do believe that God exists.”
13. The head of the DEA spent more than $123,000 to charter a private jet to fly to Bogota, Colombia, last fall instead of taking one of the agency's 106 planes.
15. PWNED!!!
19. Citigroup, which lost $18 Billion Last year, laid off 39,000 and got a $52 Billion Govt Bailout still provides perks to directors and former CEOs such as airplanes, helicopters, and drivers costing millions of dollars per year.
20. Cousin of 9/11 Hijacker Arrested as Israeli Spy
21. Fuck the media. CBS Evening News only points to $4600 from Stanford to Obama as well as showing Bill Clinton and Nancy Pelosi. No mention of McCain's $28K or any other Republican. (1:55 video)
22. Ten years. Ten FUCKING years you've been following me. And for what? PIKACHU?
23. Woman Blinded By Acid Requests That Her Attacker Be Blinded With Drops Of Acid In Each Eye. Iranian Court Accomodates Her.
25. Giant rat caught in China
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/
The reddit RSS feed is also considerably better & I find that invaluable.
realizing that the writing was on the wall, pg created hacker news. it started off just like reddit, but with different priorities.
it's sad that reddit has become what it has, but it's run by a company with profit motives. most of us would have probably done the same thing, had we been in their shoes.
Probably a really sweet submission. Like "new web framework lightspeed lisp screencast by Paul Graham on Justin.tv".
Well, participating (silently) in conversations between the advantages of one programming language/tool over another.
Reading some of the most thoughtful comments from users who clearly seem to know what they are talking about.
Experimenting with new web startups that launched here for the first time that are eager to get feedback.
Getting/giving advices on what to do and what not to do to achieve success in different fields.
Being constantly reminded that smart people who want to impact are everywhere.
Still don't know how to program, but I am loving HN. If I had to have one digital home HN would be the IT.
Thanks to every user, moderator, to the founder and to myself for mingling with smarter individuals.
HBHN
Hacker News is 10!
http://web.archive.org/web/20070221033032/http://news.ycombi...
Wait, I sense a disturbance in the Force:
What was HN doing 133 days before being born? And who are those mysterious elders with accounts "created:864 days ago"?Oh right, not Python.
I'm not sure what counts as character and this is obviously subjective but my personal feeling is that HN's quality has taken a slight hit in the past year. It doesn't seem as unique as it once was and many of the topics that make it to the front page seem to be more formulaic. Furthermore many newcomers seem to post the same things that were raised here previously. I've lost track of the number of topics about hosting providers, credit card processing and the like. Also with the increased volume it's been hard to make effective use of the "new" page. Odd things that may interest me that don't quickly get enough attention are lost faster.
Unfortunately I predict growth and network effects will speed up this trend and 2 years from now HN will likely be much less interesting as the HN of a year or two ago.
Happy birthday, Hax0rs!
I came here to say that I really like the design of this web site (despite of what some others say), but the stability seems lacking sometimes. The site is often inaccessible. I was going to suggest reimplementing everything in ASP.NET and VB.NET, but in RMS's presence, I don't dare.
On HN, dhh is DHH but rms is not RMS.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=412440
DHH, the Ruby guy? Sorry about posting that Lua vs Ruby benchmark link.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. It won't be rewritten in ASP.Net because of this: http://arclanguage.org/
I'm happy to see that you didn't do any major changes to the look and feel of this website, most sites tend to change for the worse after receiving more and more hits. Good job!
So, what are your plans for the next year at HN and how can we help with them?
P.S. Happy Birthday HN
It means quite a lot of HN visitors (which are not necessarily just registered HN users) have installed Alexa toolbar.
Which is what ultimately Alexa rank mean. It is a huge source of bias - different types of sites have very different likelihood that their visitors would have installed Alexa toolbar.
Oh, Internet Wilderness were Paradise enow!
(apologies to Omar Khayyam)
"This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius ♫ Golden living dreams of visions ♪ And the mind's true liberation"... well I'm no mystic but I just love us aquariuses!
Congrats on a fun site so far, Paul. Hope it continues.
I think that the 14x growth happened because there is a nice atmosphere here that you won't find anywhere...