Ask HN: What has HN given you?

Post by yters » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 4:48 PM UTC

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #234

yters wrote: post #192

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Yes, the uncommondescent blog is heavily conservative, and science and tech focused. But, in general there is a correlation between tech and liberal or libertarian. But this is because that crowd tends to eschew the time consuming obligations that accompany a lived out traditional conservative viewpoint, which would prohibit one from heavy online participation.

I don't think it's about time constraints, there is plenty of conservatism elsewhere on the internet. Possibly it might be age related.

Post by sunjain » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 4:54 PM UTC

iforapsy wrote: post #206

sunjain wrote: post #104

Best thing about HN are the quality of posts and the comments. No politics, mainly focused around technology and intellectually challenging posts. It gives you idea of technology trends, and how others are handling challenges similar to yours - something equivalent of going to a conference, but without going to a conference. Some of the comments here are even better than the article and when you combine both, you get…

That sounds like a very interesting comment that I'd like to read. Would you happen to still have the link to it?

Post by detaro » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 4:59 PM UTC

mancerayder wrote: post #425

dang wrote: post #329

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When accounts post too many unsubstantive comments too quickly and/or get involved in flamewars, we sometimes penalize the account by rate limiting it, which means the software won't let it post as often. Actually it limits the account to posting no more than a certain % of all the posts appearing on the site. When people ask us about this we're happy to answer, and to take the penalty off if they commit to using HN…

That's very interesting. Thanks for the explanation. I guess it's not happened to me. Related question, how come sometimes comments can be downvoted or upvoted and sometimes they can only be upvoted, even though they aren't greyed? I thought it was whether I'd already contributed to the thread, then I thought it was a relative karma thing, but I see later it's neither of those things.

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 5:00 PM UTC

mancerayder wrote: post #425

dang wrote: post #329

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When accounts post too many unsubstantive comments too quickly and/or get involved in flamewars, we sometimes penalize the account by rate limiting it, which means the software won't let it post as often. Actually it limits the account to posting no more than a certain % of all the posts appearing on the site. When people ask us about this we're happy to answer, and to take the penalty off if they commit to using HN…

That's very interesting. Thanks for the explanation. I guess it's not happened to me. Related question, how come sometimes comments can be downvoted or upvoted and sometimes they can only be upvoted, even though they aren't greyed? I thought it was whether I'd already contributed to the thread, then I thought it was a relative karma thing, but I see later it's neither of those things.

Post by hanspeter » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 5:05 PM UTC

rkuykendall-com wrote: post #421

mazumdar wrote: post #315

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Nearly 5 years ago, a few months after being rejected from YC for the first time, I came across your Show HN and started using Webflow to build a mockup of my product's sign-up page (I did not know how to code at that time). Over the next 2.5 years, I reapplied to YC five more times. I interviewed twice in the second round. I eventually got rejected every time. From the ideation stage, to $1M in revenue, YC has an ap…

Sorry if you've answered this elsewhere before, but what's with the logo? It almost looks like an exact copy of Y Combinator. Was that the case when you were applying?