to be honest, it seems more dominated by retro-computing and various tech related nostalgia for the over 40 set at the moment.
not complaining at all about this, of course.
It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news
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Re: It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news
#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it's almost the opposite. There are great subreddits for pretty much every niche in programming. HN is one size fits all, and a lot of content just never makes the front page, because of bad luck in the New queue, or it's too niche. The front page is the way it is because the regulars and the regular content have reached an equilibrium.
Mind pointing us to a particular subreddit or item that didn’t make the front page? More so that we all don’t miss out on those new opportunities!
r/programming is pretty solid, from what I recall, although I don't go on there often. I used to frequent r/scala when I was actively using that language, as an example of a niche. My reddit front page, with my idiosyncratic collection of subs, often produces a comparable amount of joy to the HN front page, but in a different set of verticals than here.
Re: It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news
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One of the lowest. Not the lowest. And you can't infer too much about it without considering a lot of other stuff, like demographic composition.
There might be some to that, but having bottom quartile infection rates while containing an eighth of the US population seems like a strong statement from any angle.
Infection rates are, by definition, adjusted for population. In a pandemic, you may want to talk about rates given population density, but California is in the middle of the pack there (even Florida is more dense.)
Re: It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news
#164It ebbs and flows. There was a time not so long ago where it seemed like every third article on HN was about yet another JavaScript framework. I'd much rather read about a startup's postmortem than about some monads-as-a-service library releasing version 14.374.299
> There was a time not so long ago where it seemed like every third article on HN was about yet another JavaScript framework.
I know it feels this way but it was in fact a very long time ago. That was 2011-2012ish IIRC
Re: It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news
#165It ebbs and flows. There was a time not so long ago where it seemed like every third article on HN was about yet another JavaScript framework. I'd much rather read about a startup's postmortem than about some monads-as-a-service library releasing version 14.374.299
> There was a time not so long ago where it seemed like every third article on HN was about yet another JavaScript framework. I know it feels this way but it was in fact a very long time ago. That was 2011-2012ish IIRC
Maybe. I lurked for a long while before creating my account in 2012 so that sounds about right.
Re: It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news
#166What intrigues me is that the "Hackers", who care about state, programs, and process, haven't turned attention to the State, and set about un-jacking its programs and streamlining its process. Why haven't we got a robust git server with anonymous read-only access for everyone who pays taxes that holds all (unclassified) legislation/regulation affecting society? Commits would be possible for elected officials/appointe…
If the elected officials & appointees actually cared for something like this, it would have existed already.
Ultimately, the problem is that the "res publica" is not actually for the public. The whole premise that a single person can meaningfully "represent" millions is so laughable, I don't know why we keep pretending it's actually democratic.
Re: It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news
#167It's possible to go back through history and look at the front page (30 top articals) for any day in the (as of today) past 15 years, beginning 9 October 2006, when Startup News, now Hacker News, first launched as a service to the tech startup sector. A business-oriented site, focusing on the (mostly) high-tech venture scene.
5 years ago today: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2016-10-09
10 years ago today: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2011-10-09
15 years ago today: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-09
A simple shell script will automate URL generation:
for i in {5..15..5} do
echo "https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=$( date -d "$i years ago" +%Y-%m-%d )"
done
2006: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1167523200&dateRange=custom&...
As 2006 is partial, here's 2007 as well:
2007: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1199059200&dateRange=custom&...
2011: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1325203200&dateRange=custom&...
2016: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1483142400&dateRange=custom&...
2021: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1640908800&dateRange=custom&...
As I read it, the top stories from 2007 were ... dominated by business / non-technical topics. Top 10 items:
Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363)
262 points|pg|15 years ago|1566 comments
Finally, voting without refresh(http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html#12jun07)
176 points|pg|14 years ago|42 comments
How Not to Die(http://paulgraham.com/die.html)
168 points|subhash|14 years ago|143 comments
Why we made this site(http://ycombinator.com/announcingnews.html)
165 points|pg|15 years ago|57 comments
Hacker News(http://ycombinator.com/hackernews.html)
150 points|pg|14 years ago|76 comments
Holding a program in one's head(http://www.paulgraham.com/head.html)
142 points|eposts|14 years ago|131 comments
Code's Worst Enemy(http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/12/codes-worst-enemy.html)
125 points|mqt|14 years ago|41 comments
CMU professor gives his last lesson on life(http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07262/818671-85.stm)
121 points|amichail|14 years ago|33 comments
Why to Apply to YCombinator
113 points|palish|14 years ago|36 comments
Absolutely, DO NOT, get a co-founder!
112 points|BitGeek|14 years ago|86 commentsRe: It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news
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It's maybe fifty cents a slice if you make it yourself
A large organic hass avocado is between $2 and $4. You need at least half of one to make good avocado toast. If the loaf of bread cost you $5, and makes 20 slices, that's a base cost of $2.25.
> A large organic hass avocado is between $2 and $4.
This is pretty outrageous. In the 1990s, we would shop for avocados in Mission district Mexican grocery stores, where they would average four for a $1. People don't realize that everyone had an abundant number of avocados in every Bay Area home back then because they were so cheap and plentiful.
Something happened, and by the end of the 1990s, the drug cartels had taken over the avocado market and raised the prices by a considerable amount. One wonders how much the average consumer of avocados contributes to the criminal cartels by keeping them flush with cash.
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Little is less appetizing than a half-used avocado. Might as well make two slices, so it doesn't go to waste. A friend of mine turned me on to fried avocado. Much better than avocado toast, if you aren't inclined to count calories from fat...
If I need to store guac, a layer of lime juice and plastic wrap without air-avo contact keeps it green and good. Can't say I've tried keeping half an avocado but I suspect the same technique could work if the acidic flavor isn't a nuisance (there might be alternatives to lime). Maybe a spray bottle could apply it.
I just stick an avocado half in a plastic container in the fridge. Stays green enough for days. If it gets brown, it's a thin layer that doesn't affect the flavor anyway and you can remove it without losing too much avocado if you don't like it.
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I agree with your overall thrust, but I certainly wouldn't have picked those examples. The diet threads just make me roll my eyes and think "Californians will believe anything"! (Sorry California, I know you don't all fit the stereotype.)
I think California having the lowest Covid-19 rate in the nation has helped its reputation a lot. We’ve traditionally caught a lot of flack for woo woo crystal healing but it seems Texas and Florida are totally stealing our thunder these days.
You would think an improving reputation would lead to people migrating to a state instead of leaving.