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Re: Wish HN: Happy Holidays

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Post by krapp »

supperburg wrote: post #97
adventured wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN is 15 years old. It isn't fragile and its position isn't precarious.

1: how are hosting costs paid for? 2: how many people need to get hit by a bus to bring it down? Yes, it is fragile and precarious and transient. Why would you delude yourself? I think your emotions are clouding your logical faculties. If Dan G got hit by a bus I know for a fact there is nobody who could replace him. To serf That’s a very elegant observation. When I imagine hacker news shutting down I can only think…

> 1: how are hosting costs paid for?

This site is literally owned and operated by billionaires. Sam Altman could fund it with the change under his couch cushions.

>2: how many people need to get hit by a bus to bring it down?

Certainly more than one. Dang isn't even the only moderator.

>If Dan G got hit by a bus I know for a fact there is nobody who could replace him.

See point 2.

>When I imagine hacker news shutting down I can only think of the massive implications it would have for my life and I imagine feeling scared because it’s like a part of me is gone. It would be a massive thing and I’m not sure everyone like me realizes it.

This is just an internet forum. Most people are just here to waste time, and in the grand scheme of things, even within the tech industry, it isn't that important. The degree of emotional dependency and instability you're displaying here is unhealthy.

Re: Wish HN: Happy Holidays

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Post by seattle_spring »

hereforphone wrote: post #104
supperburg wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Long time lurker. Your attitude suggests you're not feeling jolly and merry. Not a Christmas fan I assume?

I've always found it so weird that "account age," or lack thereof, is used as an attempted insult here and on Reddit. I've remade my account, both here and there, several times, as I'm sure a large majority of other users have at one point or another. Account age is literally and figuratively meaningless.

Re: Wish HN: Happy Holidays

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Post by CodeIsTheEnd »

This is incredible! While just controlling the soprano, it does the voice leading for all the other voices and composes together actual chord progressions. I don't have a good enough ear to determine whether it actually stay in the same key, but I could definitely hold it on a dominant chord and then it would resolve to the tonic as I moved. I even heard a suspension thrown in there!

Re: Wish HN: Happy Holidays

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Post by greeklish »

jader201 wrote: post #129
chongli wrote: post #47

I’d just like to take a moment to say how much I appreciate HN and all the work put in by dang and the moderation team. Everyone here really cares about keeping discussions lively and respectful. This is a wonderful community to be a part of! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone!

Agreed. Kinda makes you wonder why other communities haven’t been able to reproduce the level of quality and civility (I know HN is still far from perfect, but night and day vs. other platforms). A great community to be a part of, and much appreciation to those that oversee and contribute to the high quality and respectful discussions.

On HN there's the process of shadowbanning entire users accounts.

By losing the noisy/spamming/trolling posters entirely, we might also lose their constructive/valuable content too.

Since I was a teenager, in the vBulletin v3+ forums era, I've wanted to develop an access control / rate limiting system where moderators would be responsible for categorizing posts depending on the contents of the submitted posts and the user who created them.

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