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Re: Hacker News Front Page Snapshot from Last Night

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Post by ramanujan »

gbog wrote: post #45
gbog wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And annoying. Did you consider adding a filter to increase diversity?

Wow, lost a lot of karma with this. Anyone cares to explain downvotes? Most links about SJ yesterday did not follow HN guidelines about intellectual curiosity, in my understanding, please clarify if I'm wrong.

Steve was directly or indirectly responsible for a lot of people's lives and livelihoods here. Every mobile developer, everyone running Rails or Django on a Macbook, everyone interested in the aesthetics of product design...that's probably 90% of HN that's been shaped for the better by his life. It's appropriate that we give him a few hours on a homepage as a tribute. We're a virtual community so we can't do a 21-gun salute, but we sure can do a 30-post homepage.

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Post by cwp »

Actually, I had been offline all afternoon, and only learned of it when I opened up HN. I was stunned by the top story, and it was good 3 or 4 minutes before I noticed that the entire front page was devoted to Steve. At that point I got something in my eye and had to close my laptop.

Re: Hacker News Front Page Snapshot from Last Night

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Post by uniclaude »

Two things are very interesting to me here:

- This 100% Steve Jobs page was actually organically generated.

- Several members of the community took screen/snapshots yesterday when they discovered the frontpage like this.

Those things make me realize how like-minded can some of the members in this community be.

Re: Hacker News Front Page Snapshot from Last Night

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Post by jwr »

pg wrote: post #38
mahyarm wrote: post #37

I thought PG put a filter on only Steve Jobs stories because of his death.

No, it was organic.

I took a screenshot of HN yesterday. I felt this was a great tribute to Steve — demonstrates how many of our lives he touched and the respect he commands.

Re: Hacker News Front Page Snapshot from Last Night

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Post by [deleted] »

gbog wrote: post #45
gbog wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And annoying. Did you consider adding a filter to increase diversity?

Wow, lost a lot of karma with this. Anyone cares to explain downvotes? Most links about SJ yesterday did not follow HN guidelines about intellectual curiosity, in my understanding, please clarify if I'm wrong.

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Re: Hacker News Front Page Snapshot from Last Night

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Post by geoka9 »

matthewlehner wrote: post #49

This is good to see - I don't think any one person has had more influence on the way we use computers/technology than Steve did. It felt good to know that someone with his vision also had the power to create and guide new technologies and inovations within many industries. Now that singular force is gone. Hopefully Apple, or the other major players are able to continue to innovate and not just add better specs and mo…

> I don't think any one person has had more influence on the way we use computers/technology than Steve did.

Just wondering, if I don't use macs, smartphones and tablets, do I still owe it to him for the way I use computers/technology?

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