Maybe an unpopular opinion here but I am finding HN to be more and more like Reddit everyday. I normally only read HN articles that have atleast 500 points or more and have notifications setup for it. In the past I used to get only 1 or 2 notifications a week. Now I get atleast 4 a day. I find it hard nowadays to keep up.
Happy 15th birthday Hacker News
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Re: Happy 15th birthday Hacker News
#82Slashdot -> F'd Company forum -> MetaFilter -> HN
Big thanks to dang and everyone involved.
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#83HN is what reddit used to be like when it first started. Links to interesting Tech, programming and science stories and high quality discussion compared to something like Digg.
Thankfully HN hasnt dropped in quality on that front unlike reddit. Its still so good I dont even click on the link I click on comments to get a HN summary which gives me a pretty good idea if its worth reading or not. Most of the time the comments are even better and more informative.
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#84I just have to say,if you ever start to get down on hacker news just go to Twitter and try to start a reasonable discussion.
It will inspire great gratitude for HN.
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#85Wow. I've been hanging out here for 15 years.
It'd be interesting to see how many of those first cohorts are still active.
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#86HN is what reddit used to be like when it first started. Links to interesting Tech, programming and science stories and high quality discussion compared to something like Digg. Thankfully HN hasnt dropped in quality on that front unlike reddit. Its still so good I dont even click on the link I click on comments to get a HN summary which gives me a pretty good idea if its worth reading or not. Most of the time the com…
I suspect this is what most of us do
Re: Happy 15th birthday Hacker News
#87Slashdot -> F'd Company forum -> MetaFilter -> HN Big thanks to dang and everyone involved.
Slashdot -> Technocrat [1] -> HN.
I think Bruce Perens shutdown technocrat.net because it's just a p.i.t.a. running a forum like this [2].
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20080110105629/http://technocrat...
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20090104214806/http://technocrat...
Re: Happy 15th birthday Hacker News
#88Maybe an unpopular opinion here but I am finding HN to be more and more like Reddit everyday. I normally only read HN articles that have atleast 500 points or more and have notifications setup for it. In the past I used to get only 1 or 2 notifications a week. Now I get atleast 4 a day. I find it hard nowadays to keep up.
Maybe there are more users now?
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#89The actual start was some time before that: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-09
Ha, almost no comments! I'm glad this has evolved over the years; the comments are the main reason I keep coming back.
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#90Took me a while to find out where the cool kids had gone from Slashdot back then ;) Speaking of which, let's keep HN a liberal and welcoming place also for corps/startups (but not astroturfers) where key developers, experts from non-IT, CEOs/CTOs can have a voice as that's what makes HN unique IMO.
Ah, I miss the old Slashdot. It took me a while to become a regular here as well. Slashdot got a bit too serious/corporate at some point and the founders eventually got out and at some point I just moved on as well. The last time I left a comment there was twelve years ago or so. I actually just logged in just to see if my account is still there. Karma still excellent :-).
I like HN, but it could do with people being maybe a bit less uptight and a bit lighter sometimes. The comment section seems to have quite a few pedantic know it-alls taking themselves way to seriously; just like slashdot used to. Welcoming is maybe not a term I'd necessarily use for this.
Anyway, happy birthday HN!