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Too much noise in HN? (Open question)

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Re: Too much noise in HN? (Open question)

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Post by Agathos »

Radix wrote: post #15
cperciva wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you saying that indie rock bands get louder and louder the more popular they get? (Serious question -- I don't listen to rock bands, indie or otherwise, so I don't know how the time- and popularity-dependence of their volume.)

No, he's saying that the quality is variable. Sometimes they have one great album and the rest are poor, or an album has a few great songs and the rest sounds like filler.

I thought he was saying they stop being cool when too many people discover them.

Re: Too much noise in HN? (Open question)

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Post by profquail »

I'm trying to learn Lisp/Scheme/Arc right now so that I can play around with news.arc. I've a good amount of work with numerical algorithms (statistics, matrices, graphs, machine learning...you name it), and I think there is a great deal of improvement to be had in the scoring algorithms that are used by social news sites (not just HN, but Digg, reddit, and so on).

Maybe YC could sponsor a little "Netflix Challenge" for Hacker News, where the 1st-place prize is an automatic bid to the upcoming YC round.

Re: Too much noise in HN? (Open question)

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Post by 321abc »

Radix wrote: post #15
cperciva wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you saying that indie rock bands get louder and louder the more popular they get? (Serious question -- I don't listen to rock bands, indie or otherwise, so I don't know how the time- and popularity-dependence of their volume.)

No, he's saying that the quality is variable. Sometimes they have one great album and the rest are poor, or an album has a few great songs and the rest sounds like filler.

Wow. That's so unique to indie music. I couldn't even imagine any other genre of music who's quality varies.

Re: Too much noise in HN? (Open question)

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Post by erikwiffin »

Agathos wrote: post #21
Radix wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, he's saying that the quality is variable. Sometimes they have one great album and the rest are poor, or an album has a few great songs and the rest sounds like filler.

I thought he was saying they stop being cool when too many people discover them.

That sounds about right.

Unfortunately I tend to find both right as they stop being cool. (I joined on erlang day)

Re: Too much noise in HN? (Open question)

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Post by 321abc »

timtrueman wrote: post #10

I have one suggestion that would possibly help: separate out "saved" versus "up-voted". For me, I rarely want to save something but I would love to go to the new page and up-vote more interesting stories to get rid of the noise. But maybe that's just me--I'm also the type who never submits anything unless I want to see the discussion on it. I'm guessing there's a lot of karma-whores and hence all the TechCrunch artic…

I didn't even know we had karma here. I just submit articles I find interesting in hopes that they'll be interesting to the community.

Also, I'm not quite clear on what you're having problems with. Why can't you "go the the new page and up-vote more interesting stories"?

Re: Too much noise in HN? (Open question)

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Post by smhinsey »

webology wrote: post #9

There is a lot of noise but I prefer the classic view - http://news.ycombinator.com/classic over the existing homepage. It'd be nice to have a few features like never show me techcrunch articles again but all in all I still prefer Hacker News over everything else.

I did a quick search and didn't see anything too relevant. What is the difference between the classic and standard views?

Re: Too much noise in HN? (Open question)

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Post by [deleted] »

321abc wrote: post #25
timtrueman wrote: post #10

I have one suggestion that would possibly help: separate out "saved" versus "up-voted". For me, I rarely want to save something but I would love to go to the new page and up-vote more interesting stories to get rid of the noise. But maybe that's just me--I'm also the type who never submits anything unless I want to see the discussion on it. I'm guessing there's a lot of karma-whores and hence all the TechCrunch artic…

I didn't even know we had karma here. I just submit articles I find interesting in hopes that they'll be interesting to the community. Also, I'm not quite clear on what you're having problems with. Why can't you "go the the new page and up-vote more interesting stories" ?

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Re: Too much noise in HN? (Open question)

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Post by kirubakaran »

smhinsey wrote: post #26
webology wrote: post #9

There is a lot of noise but I prefer the classic view - http://news.ycombinator.com/classic over the existing homepage. It'd be nice to have a few features like never show me techcrunch articles again but all in all I still prefer Hacker News over everything else.

I did a quick search and didn't see anything too relevant. What is the difference between the classic and standard views?

Classic counts the votes of only the users who have been with HN for > 1 year.

Re: Too much noise in HN? (Open question)

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Post by sorbus »

321abc wrote: post #25
timtrueman wrote: post #10

I have one suggestion that would possibly help: separate out "saved" versus "up-voted". For me, I rarely want to save something but I would love to go to the new page and up-vote more interesting stories to get rid of the noise. But maybe that's just me--I'm also the type who never submits anything unless I want to see the discussion on it. I'm guessing there's a lot of karma-whores and hence all the TechCrunch artic…

I didn't even know we had karma here. I just submit articles I find interesting in hopes that they'll be interesting to the community. Also, I'm not quite clear on what you're having problems with. Why can't you "go the the new page and up-vote more interesting stories" ?

Upvoting a submission also adds it to a list of saved submissions. Thus, if one uses that list to remember interesting articles, discussions, or things that one wishes to read, upvoting many articles which one does not necessarily want saved would dilute that list.
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