I know people are always talking about the downfall of the web, but doesn't hackernews show that the spirit is alive and well? And further, great sites don't have to devolve into shit. I don't use social media, so to me the web _is_ places like hackernews and the great resources it typically references. Cheers and thank you all.
Happy 15th birthday Hacker News
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#92Maybe 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.
Perhaps you could increase the notification threshold.
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#93Happy birthday HN and shout out to all the OGs still here. Thanks to the founders and the mods for creating a more cerebral space on the web.
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#94It's remarkable how unchanged the community feel has been on HN -- those headlines would not be out of place on today's front page if you change the company names and tech stacks a bit :) Doesn't seem like there's been an eternal September moment in the past decade and a half (like Reddit's push for mobile adoption, for example). Really a testament to the mods' consistency, thanks @dang!
Dang is a key factor in the success of HN, no doubt about it.
Another part is the consistent website design, it helps in focusing on the essentials, i.e. the articles and the discussions.
And last but not least i try to be the best I can when posting here.
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#95HN 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…
Not having "sub-combinators" might have contributed to that, and the relentless moderation by dang, who has mildly reprimanded me too. I think it works very well indeed!
Happy 15th!
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#96It feels like HN still upholds the early promise of the internet (along with Wikipedia and very small number of other websites). But what will the next 15 year bring about?
Possibly people wishing the internet was back like it was in 2022, :D
See also,
1. Eternal September: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
2. (and what I like to call) Eternal October: https://googlepress.blogspot.com/2000/10/google-launches-sel...
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#97Took 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…
There's definitely a contingent in the HN comments with a bit of an antisocial streak. I wish people approached comments they take issue with with more of a pedagogical approach, starting with interpretive charity and trying to help the commenter see things in another way.
I'd actually use the term "welcoming" in this context.
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#98HN 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…
Not having "sub-combinators" might have contributed to that, and the relentless moderation by dang, who has mildly reprimanded me too. I think it works very well indeed! Happy 15th!
I always thought it was the opposite. That subreddits allowed the community to expand without catering to the lowest common denominator, and reddit would have fallen off the cliff faster without those.
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#100So how many more until we get dark theme?