yay!
great job, dang. i may start reading this more than the front page.
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#52Finally.
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#53At the risk of sounding like a stackoverflow pedant, would a hardware hack fit in Show HN? For example: Turn a raspberry pi into an FM transmitter https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7361782 .
Absolutely. There have been hardware Show HNs. Let's have many more! (As always, though, we'd prefer primary sources.)
Obviously, the "other people can play with it" part of the guidelines can't apply to hardware in the same way as to software, but whatever that legal principle is where you interpret the law to fit the case, that's the principle here.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Glad to see this. Show HN has always been my favorite part of Hacker News. Anything that can inspire more creation and help product builders find an audience, is a good thing, imo.
Nice to see you here! I don't mean to be rude, but how do you think it can impact Product Hunt?
I didn't take offense, lalwanivikas. The fact that you mentioned Product Hunt is more flattering, actually.
As dang mentioned, there's room for both. The HN / PH communities are significantly different and will increasingly look dissimilar over time.
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#55Excellent. I may visit this page more than HN itself.
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#56Experiment (YC W13) started off as a Show HN, but back then we were called Microryza. It was a very modest thing, and after somehow getting near the top of the front page, we were flooded with traffic [ http://i.imgur.com/miMyx7x.png ]. That traffic spike is what convinced us to quit our jobs and go all out. Show HN is definitely my favorite part of hacker news. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3833393
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#57Note that this is a filter on Show HN titles. For the newest Show HN submissions, you must go to https://news.ycombinator.com/shownew
Less a filter and more a ranked list.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
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I'd say there's obviously room for both. I'm afraid this comment is more than a little off-topic: maybe not for the thread as a whole, but certainly as a reply to the top comment. It doesn't relate to what rickhanlonii said in any way—and what rickhanlonii touched on is crucial: the kind of discussions we want to encourage in Show HN threads. Let's talk about that instead, please.
Sorry dang, my mistake. Let me post it again separately so that we can talk about guidelines here.
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#59Great work! I love when organic user behaviors are recognized and made first class features. Allow me to emphasize something from the Show HN Guidelines[1]: > Be respectful. Anyone sharing creative work is making a contribution, however modest. > Ask questions out of curiosity. Don't cross-examine. > Instead of "you're doing it wrong", suggest alternatives. When someone is learning, help them learn more. > When somet…
Absolutely agree on these guidelines. It takes a lot of bravery to put yourself out there in public. It should take just as much class to offer advice and constructive criticism instead of tearing somebody else's work down.
edit also, is it just me or is the front page plastered with Show HN links? Does anybody else think that's awesome?
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#60Glad to see this implemented...now on to the feature creep! Sometimes the submitters use a text post, which I imagine they do because they want to give some context to the project that may not be ideal to present prominently on a landing page, but which likely cuts down on click-throughs (because of the slight inconvenience of users having to find the link to click through to in the text post). Maybe it's worth havin…
danso, that's an interesting idea, but it goes against one goals stated
in the site guidelines, namely, a user should not be able to give their
own comment or opinion preferential placement. It's the reason why urls
in text posts are not turned into links (anchors), and why we're never
supposed to editorialize submission titles. The same is true for rank
weighting, since text based submissions sink faster than url based
submissions.
Though not exactly, the guidelines roughly suggest a way around this issue; write something on your own site, and submit that instead. If the guidelines haven't changed since the last time I read them a week ago, pg essentially said to write your own blog post and submit it, or something like that. e.g.
http://example.com/show-hn.html
One of the tougher problems I've had on /newest with url based submissions is differentiating between spam links and people who just forgot to add the leading "Show HN:" when submitting their new site/biz. If you create a new travel, dentistry, or cooking site and forget the "Show HN:" on your submission title, there's a good chance I'll flag it as spam. I try to be lenient because I really want to avoid clobbering someone who is just starting out.