CaiGengYang

Why is this post given so many points (521) ? Anyone can explain? Isn't it simply a post of something someone saw on the internet ?

Why does a single post like this get 479 points (so many) ?

How many users does your search engine Moocha.io have ?

I've been trying to get an answer about this, but no reply so far. What will make a great post on Hackernews that will give a lot of points? Lets say if I design an innovative new search engine , quantum computer or Go AI and put it here on Hackernews, will I gain lots of points ? I saw some posts where the user gained like 200 - 300 points at once.

Isn't ShowHN supposed to be something innovative you have made ? Did you build Lodash yourself ?

What's this about ?

What are they going to replace plastic with ? Can you invent a kind of material that is as capable as plastic but has zero negative effects on the environment ?

I would start with Python ... its a great language and very powerful. Here's a great essay on Python by Paul Graham ... paulgraham.com/pypar.html

Depends on my mood ... probably about 10 per day

This is really great --- really loved the music. What is the name of the song ? Can't seem to recall it ... very majestic, beautiful

I wonder how the 1.3B will be distributed ?

How much capital allocated to invest in each startup ? What is the algorithm used to generate the investment decisions ? How do they judge which founders to fund ?

Great book by a legendary author ---- I still remember I had to read the book during my secondary school days for my literature classes and we were tested on the material in the book during our finals. I really enjoyed the book (very poignant ending) and I would read the book multiple again and again during my free time.

A timeless storybook about bravery and courage in the face of blatant racism and discrimination. As a society, we should work towards ending racism and discrimination in all spheres and this book will surely play a part towards this goal ...

What's your plan ?

There's always going to be competition in whatever field you are playing in. Especially technology, which is the most competitive field in the world. Google was launched despite there being lots of other search engines before that.

I never quite got the part about Hollywood 2.0 ... what kinds of new businesses is the RFS referring to? Youtube is already pretty good ... millions of people watch videos and movies online on Youtube and are pretty happy. What kind of new technology can be invented that would surpass Youtube ?

This idea is related to point 7(about fixing education through technology) on YCombinator's new RFS list ---http://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/

Is it possible to build a search engine that is faster, more efficient compared to current Google search engine and has almost zero lag time ? It's been a huge problem for me recently, as you mentioned, when i click on links, very often the screen just freezes up for a few seconds or the search result doesn't appear at all ... I don't recall this happening in the past ...

The websites I am trying to browse --- very often they don't load at all when I type in the site in Google's search field.

For example, when I type soccernet in Google's search box, in the past , the results were returned almost instantaneously with no delay.

Recently, however perhaps 50-60% of the time, it just freezes up and doesn't proceed ...

Google does have one weakness though ... As Paul Graham mentioned , Gmail has grown painfully slow and inbox wasn't meant to be used as a messaging protocol ... Inbox was meant to be a to-do list, not a messaging protocol. Perhaps a new and more elegant email system would prove to be a very successful startup

Precisely ... does it matter whether you have millions of results as long as the first few results gives you the answers you want ?

Cool! Thanks for the link ...

It's a genuinely interesting question (at least to me) what the "next Google" is going to look like. Is there space to build a search engine that surpasses Google (given how fast and powerful Google already is) ?

Not sure if I am just imagining things , but it seems like Google has slowed down a little in recent years. When I type terms in the search bar nowadays (using a Mac laptop) and click the search button, it seems like there is a short (but barely perceptible) pause before the result is displayed. And Gmail seems to have slowed down quite abit too --- is it because Gmail is slow or I have a huge inbox? I seem to recall a time when Google was first launched, everything you did on it was virtually instantaneous. (Or am i just speculating and imagining things after reading this essay?)

Maybe the "next Google" won't be a search engine at all, but some kind of quantum computer skynet system that basically connects everyone on the planet instantaneously through thought processes or a futuristic 3d holographic hardware laptop that displays your screen and keyboard as floating 3d holograms that appear in front of your face , which you can manipulate with your fingers ..

THAT would be really cool lol !