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Happy 15th birthday Hacker News
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Re: Happy 15th birthday Hacker News
#102Wow. I've been hanging out here for 15 years.
Today I learned that I joined HN before jgrahamc. I think I will substitute my Slashdot 5-digit UID for my HN join date as my favorite nerd-humblebrag.
Hah... I remember feeling shameful about my 5 digit /. UID because everybody knew the real OG's had 4 digit ones!
God that brings back memories. I checked my /. profile just now and see that I still have an AIM id and an ICQ id listed there. Yikes. And the email address points to a domain I haven't owned in like 15 years. At least the jabber address I had listed is actually still active.
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#103Took 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.
> ...welcoming place also for corps/startups
news.yc, like all other mimetic communities on the web, has its flaws. For ex, it reserves plenty wrath and fury for a certain type of corps and upstarts. Not sure if that's a good or a bad thing; but, It is a thing.
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#104It 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?
Don’t forget Zombo.com, a bastion.
In a billion years, when an alien species reaches earth and sees the ruins of human civilization, somehow one of the last remaining transmissions is that voice, calmly reminding everyone that anything is possible… at Zombocom
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
Me and my 6-digit /. UID bow down before you. Now, how many digits in your CompuServe ID?
I can't win them all. You got me there, but only because I never joined it in the first place? Now I am trying to remember if there was anything special about BBS's that could be used to identify old-timers.
Oldest dated Fidonet message maybe? :-)
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
In my view Reddit and Twitter occupy the same rung with respect to discourse. There’s a lot of variation between the subreddits and between the various pockets of Twitter, but on average the lowest common denominator is not an inaccurate characterization of those communities.
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I tend to agree with this. Subreddits are fantastic for hobbies and specialised interests. Unfortunately, reddit is increasingly becoming a hub for astroturfing at the same time as search results become more unreliable.
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#108HN 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
> Thankfully HN hasnt dropped in quality on that front unlike reddit.
I've heard these sorts of shots taken at Reddit since I started using it in 2011 (I was late to the game) and I'm fascinated by it. I use Reddit every day and am in constant awe of how it is populated with such a wide breadth of people with such a strong passion and expertise about virtually any subject I enjoy.
Many times a week i type "reddit " and the top threads/comments are almost always someone with better knowledge on that subject than anything else I can find on the internet.
It's just funny how everyone's perception is different, but I think Reddit is a modern marvel.
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#109So how many more until we get dark theme?
'Materialistic', on android/ playstore. Love hn, and am greatly appreciative I can't (or can't find how to....not that I want to) vote down!
Asking for my apple friends...is there a similar app in the walled garden?
Re: Happy 15th birthday Hacker News
#110HN 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…
Unfortunately, I'm going to have to disagree...
Things aren't that bad, but I've definitely noticed a lot more cases of downvoting of "against the grain" comments or opinions with often very few responses in the last couple of years.
Previously, I rarely noticed heavily downvoted comments, and in the cases they were, there were almost always reply comments explaining the opposite side, leading to IMO much better discourse and discussion.