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Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

#71

It's an understatement to call HN a daily read for me. Does anyone else check the comments before following the link? The perspectives shared here are a valuable part of my information diet. Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving!

HN has really impressed upon me the value of site loading speed - one big reason I often check the comments first is that _they're there instantly_, whereas clicking on the actual link is a bit of a crapshoot! It's surprising how influential that difference is.

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

#72
post #57

This is my favorite community on the internet. It's the only one I don't feel gross about after spending time on it. Shout out to all the talented people here and for @dang for keeping things in check.

Couldn't agree more. I'm not sure how @dang and crew manage it but to continue to be a place of connection on the internet I don't loathe genuinely is a huge testament and I'm very grateful this community exists.

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

#73
post #57

This is my favorite community on the internet. It's the only one I don't feel gross about after spending time on it. Shout out to all the talented people here and for @dang for keeping things in check.

I feel that everyone likes @dang but he’s still underrated. Seriously good mod - exceptional, in fact.

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

#74
post #57

This is my favorite community on the internet. It's the only one I don't feel gross about after spending time on it. Shout out to all the talented people here and for @dang for keeping things in check.

I was just coming here to say this. I've been part of the community since 2007, which feels like a really, really long time. But I've learned a lot, both from the submissions and the comments. This is probably the only place on the Internet where I always read the comments or read the comments instead of the article.

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

#75

It's an understatement to call HN a daily read for me. Does anyone else check the comments before following the link? The perspectives shared here are a valuable part of my information diet. Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving!

Yup, I use TreeStyleTabs and the Open in New Tab Extension set to this domain.

That way, the root page is the main page, the comments are children and the link and other links from the comments are children of it's comments page

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

#76
post #57

This is my favorite community on the internet. It's the only one I don't feel gross about after spending time on it. Shout out to all the talented people here and for @dang for keeping things in check.

It can definitely be an echo chamber, the mods tend to flag/ [dead]/ bury posts and comments for no reason and turning on [dead] visibility is basically just 4chan, however I have received the most legitimate use from this site as people on it tend to be experienced and knowledgable

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

#77
I mean it when I say that software engineering as a career would not be as fun if HN didn't exist.

Here is a well moderated safe haven for technical and business discussion, incredibly popular yet holding itself to a higher intellectual standard than the rest of the internet, where I can ask questions, share opinions, learn from others, publicise my startup or pet project and be taken seriously.

Long live Hacker News.

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

#78
post #77

I mean it when I say that software engineering as a career would not be as fun if HN didn't exist. Here is a well moderated safe haven for technical and business discussion, incredibly popular yet holding itself to a higher intellectual standard than the rest of the internet, where I can ask questions, share opinions, learn from others, publicise my startup or pet project and be taken seriously. Long live Hacker News…

+1, this place has (mostly) managed to retain what made it special despite becoming more mainstream due the popularity of the SWE career in the last decade.

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

#79

It's an understatement to call HN a daily read for me. Does anyone else check the comments before following the link? The perspectives shared here are a valuable part of my information diet. Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving!

Yup, I use TreeStyleTabs and the Open in New Tab Extension set to this domain. That way, the root page is the main page, the comments are children and the link and other links from the comments are children of it's comments page

wow, TreeStyleTabs looks great.

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

#80
Fully agree. Without HN, I wouldn't had read books like Code, Designing Data-Intensive Applications or Operating System: Three Easy Pieces (to name just a few). I'm usually a passive reader here, but I wanted to say thank you to all of you who share their knowledge and wisdom and therefore help me to learn new things on a (almost) daily basis.
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