That should just be growing pains, though. Once HN has processed all people with something worthwhile to say, there will be no more previous articles to post - they'll all have been posted before. Things should then normalize...
Re:Hacker News and Information Overload
by unalone on Saturday September 05, 2009 @07:39PM
(#807230)
That will never happen. (I couldn't tell if you were being sarcastic or not.)
Damn, that's a good post. I missed it. COuld you find the link to that fractal post?
Re:Hacker News and Information Overload
by jacquesm on Saturday September 05, 2009 @05:47PM
(#807082)
that one ?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=417463
It's quite a bit older than your account so I doubt you 'missed' it.
Re:Hacker News and Information Overload
by jwecker on Saturday September 05, 2009 @06:59PM
(#807188)
Actually, the article being older than his account would virtually guarantee that he missed it.
He was probably disingenuous when he said that it was a good post, though.
Re:Hacker News and Information Overload
by jacquesm on Saturday September 05, 2009 @07:35PM
(#807220)
I was being disingenuous as well when I decided to find a relevant link being sure that such a combination of elements must exist if the original poster referred to it...
Do not attribute to misunderstanding what can be attributed to malice ;)
I was serious. I have a deep interest in the stock market and fractals both, so an article that brings them together ... well, it's gravy!
Re:Hacker News and Information Overload
by jacquesm on Saturday September 05, 2009 @09:19PM
(#807329)
hehe, funny :)
So, there you go then.
There is a link at the bottom to http://www.webmynd.com/html/hackernews.html
In case you ever want to find a particular HN posting again.
Each time an interesting post (say a blog post on fractal dimensionality in the stock market) gets posted ALL of that persons previous work gets posted as well. So you have a head post, followed by 5 other follow up articles which just kills Signal to Noise ratio.