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They forgot the billion *.js posts - with seemingly arbitrary nouns selected as names. Or the ridiculous intentional mispellings in names...somehow skipping all the vowels & resemble some vaguely phonetic spelling. Twitter > twtr etc.
You mean stock ticker symbols?
http://valleywag.gawker.com/silicon-valleys-stupid-name-prob...
Sadly, most of the things on there are true. We can try to deny it all we want, but most of the stuff that's there is true. The power of anonymity is that you get to voice honest opinions without tying it up with your identity and/or feeling responsible for it. Of course, this can be argued otherwise too, by citing some (bad) comments as example from that thread, but for the most part, what you see there are honest c…
>[Service that no one has heard of] is shutting down.
I went to the Apple Store and this guy was really nice to me -101 comments
what would be awesome is if the mods here changed the title to "ITT: we hacker news now"
Go big or go home. Make it the default text for the whole domain.
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Well, they're not mutually exclusive, reddit has both a flat 'new' and 'top' comments -- new is 4chan-like and top is hn-like with an interesting strategy with fancy nonlinear time-decaying importance. But this is of course one of those cases where they decided to make a choice, and they clearly favor the "top" structure. Honestly I think they could have meshed the two better, though.
s/they/you/ (check the user)
I love how hackernews is responding to this with confidence and humor. It's like an avuncular old gentleman responding to a lampooning by saying "haha, jolly good joke chaps, some of that was right on the money" I particularly appreciate the maturity and humor demonstrated by hacker news's response in stark opposition to how a lot of Internet communities (4chan, reddit) get angry when 4chan mocks them. I like a commu…
"We have met the enemy and he is us."
It's not just 4chan talking here, it's all of us. We can't reply because everything is true. The only difference is the guys posting on 4chan are free to post under anonymity. Here? Not so much, I don't want my 714 karma to stray too far from my 720 days here.
I still like you HN <3
How could they have left out the patronizing irrelevant [0] links [1] to Wikipedia [2] in all the wannabe-academic [3] comments with references[4]? (and yes, references must be 0-based [5]) [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relevance [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_resource_locator [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academia [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation [5…
Parodies are usually funny because they're true. The citations in HN comments are some of the most valuable contributions to the site. This whole post is depressing. Far from lighthearted fun, these comments all have an undercurrent of hostility ("wannabe-academic"). The mosaic formed by these comments imply pg has harmed the world by creating HN. But that couldn't be further from the truth. Imagine where you'd be fo…
Sadly, most of the things on there are true. We can try to deny it all we want, but most of the stuff that's there is true. The power of anonymity is that you get to voice honest opinions without tying it up with your identity and/or feeling responsible for it. Of course, this can be argued otherwise too, by citing some (bad) comments as example from that thread, but for the most part, what you see there are honest c…