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Ironically, there is already a HN subreddit. But it's join-by-approval only and there's nothing there.
There's also http://www.reddit.com/r/hackerjerk
Ok, can we stop now? They reason I prefer HN instead of say Reddit is precisely because all the news are in one place. The new trend "Hacker News for X" basically means hey guys let's make Reddit, without all the good stuff.
> The new trend "Hacker News for X" New trend? This has been happening continuously for about 5 years now. I'm just amazed people keep upvoting it, despite the fact these sites always die.
Great idea! Some request * add an API (apps, mobile browsing) * integrate tipping (upvote = tip) * add signup fee to limit spam
Not sure if upvote = tips is a fantastic idea or a way for trolls and dramatic people to make a living.
Of course posting and downvoting would have a karma cost.
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> The new trend "Hacker News for X" New trend? This has been happening continuously for about 5 years now. I'm just amazed people keep upvoting it, despite the fact these sites always die.
Why isn't there a Hacker News for Hacker News for X?
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Yeah, maybe it's the idea of taking that CSS/structure and creating an exact clone of HN for some specific niche that lacks originality in my book.
well, to be fair, if this is any indication of how deeply integrated markup, data and code are in an Arc application, making any kind of changes to the rendered document would be potentially horribly painful: https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/html.arc (sorry... I'm sure people think this is awesome because zomg Lisp but in any other language it would be derided as "spaghetti code")
So, what we're saying is these guys are merely using the open source Arc webapp that HN is using and changing a few styles?
If so, that's actually not dishonorable and more like just starting a niche community with forum software.
And, I have been educated.
Ok, can we stop now? They reason I prefer HN instead of say Reddit is precisely because all the news are in one place. The new trend "Hacker News for X" basically means hey guys let's make Reddit, without all the good stuff.
making sites like this is kind of equivalent to news.ycombinator.com/r/bitcoin
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Yeah, maybe it's the idea of taking that CSS/structure and creating an exact clone of HN for some specific niche that lacks originality in my book.
well, to be fair, if this is any indication of how deeply integrated markup, data and code are in an Arc application, making any kind of changes to the rendered document would be potentially horribly painful: https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/html.arc (sorry... I'm sure people think this is awesome because zomg Lisp but in any other language it would be derided as "spaghetti code")