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Re: Ask HN: How do you benefit from Hacker News?

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Post by deadcoder0904 »

zuzuleinen wrote: post #2

HackerNews is a great community. I love the comments because they come from people much smarter than me. I actually started to make a newsletter from comments which contain an important lesson: https://lessonsofhn.com Sadly the newsletter has only 4 subscribers and I might discontinue it in the future. However, I will not stop favoriting comments which contain important lessons. Now I'm thinking about building a tool…

Wow love the lifting lesson. Subscribed. Telegram bot will be amazing as I use it a lot. I probably will make it myself if I can do something with that RSS Feed. Do you mind if I make it?

Re: Ask HN: How do you benefit from Hacker News?

#32

Post by MoBattah »

jokh wrote: post #20

I like how comment authors employ real critical thinking, unlike places like reddit where all the top comments echo each other. So fresh perspectives helps me learn from people with different viewpoints who aren't afraid to question others when they're wrong/BSing.

Right. HN readers call out logical fallacies well. Makes me a better analytical thinker.

Re: Ask HN: How do you benefit from Hacker News?

#33

Post by zuzuleinen »

deadcoder0904 wrote: post #31
zuzuleinen wrote: post #2

HackerNews is a great community. I love the comments because they come from people much smarter than me. I actually started to make a newsletter from comments which contain an important lesson: https://lessonsofhn.com Sadly the newsletter has only 4 subscribers and I might discontinue it in the future. However, I will not stop favoriting comments which contain important lessons. Now I'm thinking about building a tool…

Wow love the lifting lesson. Subscribed. Telegram bot will be amazing as I use it a lot. I probably will make it myself if I can do something with that RSS Feed. Do you mind if I make it?

Absolutely not :) If you make it let me know I can share it on the website as well. You can find my e-mail on my profile.

Re: Ask HN: How do you benefit from Hacker News?

#34

Post by zuzuleinen »

zuzuleinen wrote: post #33
deadcoder0904 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow love the lifting lesson. Subscribed. Telegram bot will be amazing as I use it a lot. I probably will make it myself if I can do something with that RSS Feed. Do you mind if I make it?

Absolutely not :) If you make it let me know I can share it on the website as well. You can find my e-mail on my profile.

Sorry, I wanted to say Absolutely :D Without the not :))

Sorry I'm on mobile and cannot edit the comment

Re: Ask HN: How do you benefit from Hacker News?

#35

Post by deadcoder0904 »

zuzuleinen wrote: post #34
zuzuleinen wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Absolutely not :) If you make it let me know I can share it on the website as well. You can find my e-mail on my profile.

Sorry, I wanted to say Absolutely :D Without the not :)) Sorry I'm on mobile and cannot edit the comment

Lol I thought absolutely not. Its a good site. I'll probably launch it in a couple of days. And when do you release new newsletters? Any specific days?

Re: Ask HN: How do you benefit from Hacker News?

#36

Post by zuzuleinen »

deadcoder0904 wrote: post #35
zuzuleinen wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry, I wanted to say Absolutely :D Without the not :)) Sorry I'm on mobile and cannot edit the comment

Lol I thought absolutely not. Its a good site. I'll probably launch it in a couple of days. And when do you release new newsletters? Any specific days?

Yeah, I was on train and busy, but yes I wanted to say I don't mind :)

I release every Friday morning around 8:00 UTC+1

Re: Ask HN: How do you benefit from Hacker News?

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Post by dang »

whatyoucantsay wrote: post #29
dang wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People can assess the ruins for themselves, but I need to correct some factual errors. 1. Mainstream news stories were more common on HN in past years (actually a lot more common); 2. moderators don't moderate HN to suit their own politics (in fact we take great care not to); 3. we don't block anyone for making a comment about YC (that's in response to your user profile, since I can't reply there).

1. Which years? 2. I've seen it happen countless times. With the exception of pg himself, who displayed an allergy to politics or anything that got in his way of attempting to discover truth, I believe every HN moderator his sit firmly on the same side of the political spectrum and culture wars. Being humans, most have a propensity to ignore inflammatory or factually incorrect comments they agree with while flagging…

Arguments about HN getting too political / ruined by politics go back almost as far as HN itself:

2008: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=348994 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=278434 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=243561

2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1934367 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1542380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1320152

2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6157485

Sound familiar? Those are just the first few I found. In those arguments, pg was in favor of keeping politicized stories if they were intellectually interesting and not just about politics:

2008: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=243614

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=349168

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=196756

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=94861

2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403775

We've kept the original rule that a political story on HN needs to have something intellectually interesting, but we've also tightened it. For example, when a thread turns into a political flamewar, we moderate it more than pg used to. There were many past submissions that neither users nor moderators would allow today, like these from ten years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=94840

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=208518

Just look at those threads! (Edit: also interesting how the item IDs more than doubled in the first half of 2008.)

Re: Ask HN: How do you benefit from Hacker News?

#40

Post by ibnishak »

zuzuleinen wrote: post #2

HackerNews is a great community. I love the comments because they come from people much smarter than me. I actually started to make a newsletter from comments which contain an important lesson: https://lessonsofhn.com Sadly the newsletter has only 4 subscribers and I might discontinue it in the future. However, I will not stop favoriting comments which contain important lessons. Now I'm thinking about building a tool…

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