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After all, it was discovery from a Torvalds Q&A session.
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Biggest problem with this would be broken password managers.
Wouldn't be a problem if auth is still handled on ycombinator.com
It is already a lot more like Reddit than it used to be just a few years ago. For example, the comments on some submissions are full of stupid jokes now, gradually drowning out actually interesting discussion. IMO HN was better when it was dry, boring, and insightful. It is less and less of that every year. Example from this very submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28962122 I'm sure there are more people…
> It is already a lot more like Reddit than it used to be just a few years ago. From the Guidelines: > Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills. Last few words are linked: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=926703 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=633099 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=582513 And three more, but I have other things to d…
It would be interesting if YC ran two instances of the same HN app at different URLs, to see how the content & communities diverge over time. But it would only be interesting if you launched them at the same time, due to the effect of domain authority.
Ha - that'll make it easier to refer folks to the website. I hope to never need to utter - "Oh you should checkout Hacker News, go to news dot why combinator dot com, I think it will be right up your alley."
That's been my primary motivator behind "I read it online/on a forum," vs "I read it on news DOT why combinator DOT com." The other reason is that I'd prefer not to navigate the conversation toward "why I'm on a website with 'Hacker' in the name." That's a separate issue for which I am ill-equipped to discuss, given the mainstream connotation.
It is already a lot more like Reddit than it used to be just a few years ago. For example, the comments on some submissions are full of stupid jokes now, gradually drowning out actually interesting discussion. IMO HN was better when it was dry, boring, and insightful. It is less and less of that every year. Example from this very submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28962122 I'm sure there are more people…
The perception that HN is trending Redditward has been around for so long, it even predates HN itself! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13852 Of course there are vectors pointing that way, and datapoints on those vectors, but there are also countervailing forces. I think after 14+ years we can at least say it's not collapsing. That's the reason for the final guideline of https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguideline…
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HN is divided on topics where society at large is divided, just like any large-enough population sample. There's no "their" there, and defining the whole by the part you most dislike is a cognitive bias ( https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... ) - a common one. The people you disagree with are complaining just as much about how your side dominates. If there's a difference with HN, it's that t…
I appreciate the response, and yes I was being snarky. That said, I don’t think this is simply a matter of HN being divided the same way society is divided. HN has a bias in favor of capital, which I think is pretty observable in a typical thread on e.g startups, and if you don’t share my observation you can agree this is at least likely given the high rate of tech workers and would be investors on this site. I think…
I think that showing up with an axe to grind isn't going to appeal to the people who are here to discuss the articles, regardless of whether you're pro- or anti-whatever.