Open secrets about Hacker News

Post by MadeThisToReply » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 10:41 AM UTC

agustif wrote: post #10

capableweb wrote: post #6

A collaborative resource with more information about undocumented/norms on HN: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented > Personally, I’d stay at 3. I’d also wait at least a day between re-posts (and try re-posting at different time slots). Wow, that's not how I parsed the very same reposting rules. If I'm about to submit something and I found an older submission with the same URL, my personal rule is th…

China has not many surnames I think? A little google search showed that dang is one of them. ``` Chinese : The surname Dang comes from a branch of the ruling family of the Zhou dynasty (1122–221 bc) that spread to the state of Jin and the state of Lu. The character now also means 'political party'. German: from an old personal name Tanco, a cognate of modern German denken 'to think', Gedanke 'thoughts'. ``` So I'm gu…

Post by agustif » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 10:50 AM UTC

MadeThisToReply wrote: post #41

agustif wrote: post #10

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China has not many surnames I think? A little google search showed that dang is one of them. ``` Chinese : The surname Dang comes from a branch of the ruling family of the Zhou dynasty (1122–221 bc) that spread to the state of Jin and the state of Lu. The character now also means 'political party'. German: from an old personal name Tanco, a cognate of modern German denken 'to think', Gedanke 'thoughts'. ``` So I'm gu…

I don't know about China, but in Vietnam there are 14 family names which account for about 90% of the entire population. Roughly 40% of all Vietnamese people are called "Nguyen", which makes it one of the most common family names in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_name#Family_name

Post by implements » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 10:51 AM UTC

simion314 wrote: post #31

bborud wrote: post #19

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So as long as something doesn't challenge our beliefs, values, opinions or prejudices it's OK.

The parent is trying to tell that off-topic is not welcomed by some users. I am the same opinion, I don't want to see on HN news about some non-technical political thing in LA or India , or see 3 days in a row someone toy Rust project. You can try to change my mind that I should never use GOTO, some fanatic submitted such articles and comments using the "NEVER" and I will be happy to reply because is still on topic.…

Post by pvg » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 10:53 AM UTC

kergonath wrote: post #37

vadfa wrote: post #2

>readers reacted negatively, even violently, to seeing [...] stories that were placed there randomly >HN users have an intense emotional relationship with the front page If a "greatest 80s hits" radio station started broadcasting music from the 00s and people got pissed off you wouldn't say "listeners of this station have an intense emotional relationship with it". When they tune in to the "greatest 80s hits" station…

HN is not a “greatest 80s hits” radio, though. Users submit links and users vote on them. There is nobody making editorial decisions about what goes on the front page, beyond extreme cases. Sure, there is some tweaking, but in the end it’s all stories posted and upvoted by us, collectively. So it is entirely pointless to whine about the content: it is what the community wants to see.

Post by IAmGraydon » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 10:54 AM UTC

zahma wrote: post #46

One thing I’ve never understood is I can only upvote, but some comments are greyed out as if they’ve been downvoted. How does this work?