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Ask HN: A place like HN but with more nerdy stuff and less social stuff?

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Re: Ask HN: A place like HN but with more nerdy stuff and less social stuff?

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Post by scottrb »

michaelochurch wrote: post #74
personlurking wrote: post #49

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"and you're more likely to have a good comment downvoted." This has never made sense to me. On some subreddits that focus on disciplines (like AskHistorians among many others), you can easily get downvoted (ie "dissapeared") just by asking a question, let alone answering one. Other times you'll won't get upvoted nor downvoted when you've actually contributed to the discussion. In these instances I lurk even when I ca…

Reddit's voting system has two issues: (1) Lots of strategic downvoting. That's why no thread stays above 75%. It happens to comments as well as threads. Some of it is spammers trying to improve their own ranking, and some is probably just trolls. (2) "Stalker" downvoting, which is when a person retaliates to a comment by downvoting that person's contributions en masse . I wonder if they've put any machine learning m…

I don't doubt these are real issues on reddit. Even with that, good content does rise to the top most of the time.

As to the ops questions: you should look into creating a list of subreddits that cover these things you're interested in.

Re: Ask HN: A place like HN but with more nerdy stuff and less social stuff?

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Post by duck »

randomdata wrote: post #104
VMG wrote: post #17

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And if you build the next HN, please add an API

Technically, HN already exposes an API over HTTP. It just uses HTML as the exchange format instead of XML or JSON.

Hmmm, not sure if I agree with that or not... but if so, it has a very limited usage quota before you get banned. :)

Re: Ask HN: A place like HN but with more nerdy stuff and less social stuff?

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Post by muratmutlu »

btilly wrote: post #96
artursapek wrote: post #85

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I really like that HN still has such an old, simple interface. It's one of the reasons I haven't left yet.

About a decade ago I noticed this phenomena. Worthwhile communities need to be maintained by barriers. The kind of barrier that I personally enjoy most is, "Crappy enough interface that only people who really like the content will be motivated to show up."

Never really thought of it like that, a statement worth exploring for sure

Re: Ask HN: A place like HN but with more nerdy stuff and less social stuff?

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Post by guiambros »

jamesbritt wrote: post #116
guiambros wrote: post #103

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hey, would love one as well http://scr.im/ambros . Thanks in advance!

You're making it awfully hard to get your Email address.

indeed, must admit it's a silly idea (especially when I'm the one asking a favor :)

ambros at gmail.

Re: Ask HN: A place like HN but with more nerdy stuff and less social stuff?

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Post by shoopy »

"Tech products"

Not so clear cut. I, too, am sick of the gadget wars infesting every single discussion. Unfortunately, the inanities resulting from this modern day religious war are pervasive and unavoidable. Let's call it Shoopy's Law: Any topic that involves Apple, Google, Microsoft, ${CORPORATE_ENTITY}, no matter how superficial, is bound to devolve into religious flamewars about nonsequitur gadgety things like framerate stutters and marketplace app metrics.

Re: Ask HN: A place like HN but with more nerdy stuff and less social stuff?

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Post by shoopy »

I am also tired of the amount of time we spend patting each other on the back. I learned node.js 36 hours ago and here's my Hello World! 230 points! That's wonderful, but that front page is precious and we should upvote things that are useful to the community, instead of being tools for external affirmation for eager beavers.

Re: Ask HN: A place like HN but with more nerdy stuff and less social stuff?

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Post by derleth »

artursapek wrote: post #85
VMG wrote: post #61

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Building more powerful clients for desktop and mobile. Think user tagging, comment filtering, custom sort order, interface improvements.

I really like that HN still has such an old, simple interface. It's one of the reasons I haven't left yet.

> I really like that HN still has such an old, simple interface.

You having the interface you want shouldn't impact my having the interface I want.

An API allows everyone to have the interface they want.

Re: Ask HN: A place like HN but with more nerdy stuff and less social stuff?

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Post by JEVLON »

rickdale wrote: post #102
sgdesign wrote: post #31

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If anybody wants an easy way to set up their own HN, may I suggest taking a look at Telescope? http://telesc.pe/ It's a real-time, open source HN clone built on Meteor, with features like invite-only mode, notifications, and a lot more stuff. And since it's open source, if something is missing you can always code it yourself and contribute it back to the project.

How do you install meteorite? I can't get this working! Frustrated!

http://docs.meteor.com/#quickstart

Re: Ask HN: A place like HN but with more nerdy stuff and less social stuff?

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Post by jlgreco »

thaumaturgy wrote: post #8

I have a somewhat radical, sadly not novel suggestion: build what you're looking for. I now have a semi-private "HN Reader" which has completely broken my HN habit while still feeding me stuff I might be interested in. Because I built it, I can make it do anything I want. I've started to turn it into a slightly broader search engine so that I can find the things that I'm looking for; I got sick of seeing search engin…

I've done similar.

Bayesian filtering seems to work great on HN headlines. I trained mine with about two years of data scrapped from http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/ (apologies to whoever runs that), then just basically wrapped that with some code that grabs hacker news's main page and displays the filtered headlines to me. It nails politics and startup crap with stunning accuracy.

The only problem is that now I find myself using both that system and the website itself.

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