Since the content is promoted by the users, Hacker News is what the majority of its readers wants it to be.
People that are interested in pure hacking stuff already found better sources, like good subreddits.
Where are the hacker news on Hacker news?
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#12I don't really see a difference between now and a year ago. Between nowadays and four years ago yes, maybe. But I don't recall HN being more tech-oriented one year ago than it is now.
Actually, this same complaint pops up like every two months at max and if it were true each time HN would be TechCrunch by now.
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#13I love RMS's chopsticks anecdote about hacking. It further drives the point that a hack doesn't always have to be on computer software.
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#14The Hacker in Hacker News refers to the subculture, not specifically to security. See http://hack.org/faq-hacker.html .
Oh gosh this dude never got it in the first place. I wonder what he thinks YC is.
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#15I've been lurking on HN now for more than 2years, and the change OP is referring about is totally true...
I don't care about boring news coming from TC/Mashable/... Now HN is only about:
-Facebook -blogging shit -why no women in IT ? bouhouhou we are all macho jerk.. common grow a pair white knights, smells like virgins over here. -"How Xcompany raised x$$, and why you should definitively not listen to these advices..." -"Hey guys i'm a rich mofos working in IT AMA..."
1. Go back on reddit 2. Why so many Commercial/marketing bullshitters ?
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#16This post is like 6 months early
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#17From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html :
>On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
>If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)
On the other hand, I think there is at least 10% chance that this is a troll/joke though..
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#18I think there is some merit to this observation.
The hacker definition have been stretched more and more, while the posts here still fall within the sites definition of news, there seems to have been a shift to a higher focus on hacking your startup X's round A|B|C|... and less about hacking the technology.
tl;dr: I think there have been a shift from hacking the technology to hacking the finance.
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#19It's worth remembering that this board was originally called Startup News. Acquisitions, fundraising is still relevant to that intent at least.
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#20You could start your own. Call it “Hacker Hacker News: Hacker News for Hackers”