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Re: Non-Hacker News

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Post by mk »

rrf wrote: post #4

The creation of a non-hacker news site seems a bit knee-jerk. Would it not have been better to have waited a few days to see how the recent debate has affected the quality of submissions?

"And please don't take this as an attempt at some sort of great schism of the audience here, it's not. I'll still surf this site no matter how popular NHN gets."

It didn't seem to me a knee jerk reaction to the quality of submissions, but rather a public service because people are understandably complaining about political posts being made that are not "hacker news".

Re: Non-Hacker News

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Post by nickb »

I have a biz/financial news site that used to be for my personal use but everyone's welcome to sign up and use it. It's running Arc + HN forum soft. It's still heavily beta as I use it as a testing ground for some AI/NLP stuff that I'm writing in Arc.

I dig out a ton of great links but only a fraction are god for HN, hence a new site for biz & finance. In my past life I used to work in finance so I'm still attached to that field. I am also trying to round off some of my business knowledge as well and there's really no good business sites out there that have stuff that's past the 'news' category.

Enjoy: http://www.newmogul.com/

Re: Non-Hacker News

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Post by Alex3917 »

mattmaroon wrote: post #5
Alex3917 wrote: post #2

According the FAQ, anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity is on topic. Does this mean that on-topic for nonhackernews is anything that does not gratify one's intellectual curiosity?

I meant off-topic in the way that most people who claim things are off-topic mean it, hence the quotes.

I was half joking, I actually did read the FAQ. Personally I would go the other way. I would rather keep the intellectually gratifying articles from the NYT magazine, salon, TED, the new yorker, marc cuban's blog, edge.org, etc. and get rid of the esoteric programming articles and cliche business advice. To me what makes hacker news boring is all the front page articles about erlang libraries and cloud computing.

Re: Non-Hacker News

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Post by mattmaroon »

Alex3917 wrote: post #16
mattmaroon wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I meant off-topic in the way that most people who claim things are off-topic mean it, hence the quotes.

I was half joking, I actually did read the FAQ. Personally I would go the other way. I would rather keep the intellectually gratifying articles from the NYT magazine, salon, TED, the new yorker, marc cuban's blog, edge.org, etc. and get rid of the esoteric programming articles and cliche business advice. To me what makes hacker news boring is all the front page articles about erlang libraries and cloud computing.

Well, then you'll enjoy NHN.

Re: Non-Hacker News

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Post by rrf »

mattmaroon wrote: post #7
rrf wrote: post #4

The creation of a non-hacker news site seems a bit knee-jerk. Would it not have been better to have waited a few days to see how the recent debate has affected the quality of submissions?

The recent debate is just one out of a number of posts/comments that have been ongoing for months. (I actually like the quality of submissions here.)

Agreed - on both points. I guess I took the removal of Prakash's submission from the front page to mean: point taken, let's move on.

Re: Non-Hacker News

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Post by mattmaroon »

rrf wrote: post #18
mattmaroon wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The recent debate is just one out of a number of posts/comments that have been ongoing for months. (I actually like the quality of submissions here.)

Agreed - on both points. I guess I took the removal of Prakash's submission from the front page to mean: point taken, let's move on.

I actually almost did this a month ago, but for whatever reason it slipped my mind. That just kind of reminded me.
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