Before my time, but HN was originally called "Startup News" which is more-or-less business.
It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news
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#13Programmers aren’t interested in the same programming related topics because everyone is too specialized now. The topics I’d be interested in would be boring to someone else, etc. aside from stuff about elixir which we all geek out on. So general tech topics like dunking on Facebook/apple/surveillance tech and complaining about leetcode job interview headaches get much traction.
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#14I can't say I agree...look at the top 60 links currently. How many would you say are "business news"?
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#15Funny, I'd say there's less, no, a LOT less, startup / business oriented discussion here than in the past. To me, the big thing that has emerged over the past few years has been a lot more "stuff" that can loosely be described as "politics / culture / public policy / society" or whatever. And if I could wave a magic wand and change anything, I'd ban that stuff. Because I agree, " I'd like to see conversations about s…
Yes please. People trying to discuss those topics on here makes me come back less. It’s probably the worst part of the site for me overall.
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#16Try lobste.rs ( https://lobste.rs ) if you want "real" hacker news.
They punish non-technical submissions.
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#17HN is HN. It ebbs and flows like the tide. I love HN for what it is, a news feed of interesting articles, with a bias towards technology but not always. I've been introduced to so many things because of the wide range of articles that are fascinating to like-minded people.
> I'd like to see conversations about software, hardware, computer science, and hacker culture resurge and dominate here.
Feel free to upvote the articles that you enjoy. But forcing HN to only be about the above would probably lead to its demise.
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#18Try lobste.rs ( https://lobste.rs ) if you want "real" hacker news. They punish non-technical submissions.
Looks cool! hmm would you invite me? :)
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#19This is strange, are we even reading the same front page? ( I am pretty sure HN dont have personalised front page )
I just ran through the first 100 Front page times and there are barely any business related news.
I also dont see how the community here sometimes tilts more towards business than technology. Other than some rare news on another Unicorn, Public Listing, earning from FAANG. There has rarely been any business news on HN at all.
There are some economics news ( if you count them as business news ), but are again in the minorities.
YC backed start up Jobs are only shown may be once per day. They are more like ads on HN. Who is hiring is also only a monthly posting.
I am actually in flavour of more business news, but I also think the current balance seems to be fine.
Re: It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news
#20Funny, I'd say there's less, no, a LOT less, startup / business oriented discussion here than in the past. To me, the big thing that has emerged over the past few years has been a lot more "stuff" that can loosely be described as "politics / culture / public policy / society" or whatever. And if I could wave a magic wand and change anything, I'd ban that stuff. Because I agree, " I'd like to see conversations about s…
I actually think this is a problem hackers have in general. It's the Zuckerberg problem. You build something cool, you want to talk about all the tricks you did to scale to N billion users and all anyone can talk about is that genocide you caused. You just built the tech, right? It's all about the Tech. Except it's not about the tech when you're actually having an effect on people's lives, and we should be more willing to openly talk about that. Is it easier to pretend that stuff doesn't exist? Sure. But it does exist, and we do need to actually discuss what happens in the real world due to the technology we work on.