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I was really interested in learning more about ML and math. I normally run queries like "Best way to Learn X vs ____". Normally, I get a lot of reddit articles. Sometimes quora or stackexchange. But hackernews came up a few times. Was curious and the rest was history
Somehow ran across a blog post from Sam Altman who seemed like a pretty smart fellow, and soon found he was assocated with YCombinator, both of whom I had never heard of.
HN turned out to be a good compliment to my other efforts at keeping more up-to-date with things outside my area of leadership.
Next thing you know, Sam became President and it looks like YCombinator has indulged in a little experimentation itself.
Digg died, or went bad or something. The exact process is hazy at this point, but I’m pretty sure there was a direct switch.
This might be funny, but I learned about HN on slashdot I believe, and found it was similar but with a much better signal-to-noise ratio in the comments and actually did a better job of living up to the reputation that slashdot had.
I don't remember how I first heard about HN, but I came here from SlashDot, too. At some point, I realized that /. was too many fluff posts (I can't say now exactly what the "fluff" was, but the perception was very strong for me), too few posts that I was interested in, and that I had just grown tired of trying to dig any gems out of comments that had become increasingly toxic, boring, or irrelevant. I remember when…
That's exactly why I migrated here from slashdot. I read both for a few months and was finding I'd see something on HN and then see the same exact thing on slashdot days or weeks later.
What eventually made me switch completely was the way comments work here don't encourage the inane, offtopic, uninventive, dead-horse-beating karma-farming injokes and references that slashdot and reddit seem to be inundated with[1]. Not to mention I find it utterly charming how often someone else will post something and the author/creator pops into the comments section to chime in "Hey that's me, would love to answer any questions you guys have". Nowhere else like it on the internet I've ever seen.
[1]Not to say I don't occasionally enjoy the occasionally silly comment, but I find the ones on HN to be a lot more tasteful and actually witty as opposed to the rout cookie cutter memes and references that are found on every single tangentially related reddit or slashdot thread that people can think to post them to.
This might be funny, but I learned about HN on slashdot I believe, and found it was similar but with a much better signal-to-noise ratio in the comments and actually did a better job of living up to the reputation that slashdot had.
i don't remember.
One of them was something like ‘don’t under estimate the value of wasting time on hacker news’.
Held true!