Because of the emphasis on a particular business model by YC and by extension HN, ritualized repetition of the conventional wisdom isn't surprising. On the other hand, suppose someone had a radically different and successful business strategy. Would blogging about it at length be likely to raise or lower returns?
Ask HN: Is anyone else tired of reading the same articles?
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Re: Ask HN: Is anyone else tired of reading the same articles?
#12You could try the "new" link up at the top, and up-vote things you find interesting. There are a LOT of worthy submissions that never make it to the front page.
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone else tired of reading the same articles?
#13What would you like to read about ?
It isn't a question of 'What' but 'What's next?'
Articles regurgitating AB testing homepages, green buttons, and, my favorite, 'Follow me on Twitter here' aren't progressing the community.
What's next? What can we do with this information that advances the discussion?
I don't have the answer. I'm raising the question.
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone else tired of reading the same articles?
#14I just skip over the repeats. I'm still new here so I probably haven't read all of them. And, after all some things bear repeating.
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone else tired of reading the same articles?
#15Why is this post falling? 7 pts in 28 minutes should be front page, and now its on the second page? I thought it was a valid argument to raise...
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone else tired of reading the same articles?
#16Is basically the problem of threads-based forums repeated in the blogo/HN-sphere...
It would be cool if the best blog-posts could be somehow preserved, and shown when somebody is interested in them as if they were new, + personalizing the news/reading experience (Thoof comes to mind here).
In the past years I built this (http://www.logilogi.org), as a hobby/passion-project, but naturally it has not taken off either, as threads and/or "expiring the attention" that is given to posts, have the advantage that they focus readers on a limited number of posts, increasing the likelyhood of attaining critical mass in discussing/replying to them.
So there is a dilemma here...
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone else tired of reading the same articles?
#17Maybe there just aren't enough awesome articles out there for you?
Otherwise, if you see something you'd like to read on HN, submit it! If that isn't successful, then you can really start complaining.
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone else tired of reading the same articles?
#18its impossible to find your perfect news feed unless you are running it... I would just start skimming over a few other feeds routinely and you will be able to pick up a bigger variety of stories.
treehugger, techmeme, betanews, techcrunch, and even ted will be good places for a wider inventory of stories.
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone else tired of reading the same articles?
#19You make a valid point. But, those answers have to do with the questions that startups ask all the time:
1. how do you launch? answer: "lean startup this" 2. how do you make convert more users? answer: "A/B test that" 3. is design important? answer: "design is important" 4. what happens if you fail? answer: "that's okay, I failed" 5. what do you do first, community or revenue: "build a community, then revenue"
We're limited by the subject matter, which is what makes this community so valuable. Moreover, our answers are similar because we've all developed a very similar startup ethos over time.
Are there other questions we need to be asking as startups, which produce different answers?
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone else tired of reading the same articles?
#20Maybe a simple keyword filter would help? Could be done as fancy 'realtime' search which would actually be cool/useful giving instant feedback. It would make it easy to screenout posts that are uninteresting to the user.