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Re: Show HN: Show HN

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Post by dang »

fmax30 wrote: post #103

Hey Dang now that we have a separate Show HN section , can we please move Show HN posts from the front page to that place (so that they don't appear on the front page anymore ? Because at the moment 11 out of the top 30 stories are about Show HN. It seems that now that there is a separate Show Hn section , the posts are getting more traction and in the process appearing on the front page.

I think it's fair for the Show HNs to dominate the front page on their big day. I doubt it will stay that way.

If it does stay that way, it'll be a nice problem to have, since that would amount to a renaissance of creative work—at least in quantity if not in quality. (And quantity can lead to quality, too.) In any case, we'll burn that bridge when we come to it, as a teammate of mine used to say.

I tend to resist the idea of balkanizing the front page. It seems to me in the essence of HN that you have one front page and everyone's dissatisfied with it.

Re: Show HN: Show HN

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Post by [deleted] »

dang wrote: post #84
001sky wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe the guidelines should be stickied up top, along with the current explanation text, at least while this gets going! https://news.ycombinator.com/show =/= https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html edit: they are, but just not called out as such. [Show HN] is for something you've made that other people can play with. The newest Show HNs are listed [here]. (eg clicking the first hyperlink will bring them up)

Yes, we clearly need to make those more prominent. Edit: we changed it to emphasize the Show HN guidelines more. Edit 2: I think we'll also write something much more detailed about the kind of discussions we want in Show HN threads: discussions that foster further creativity. Perhaps we'll put it up on the YC blog and then have a new thread about all this, once the dust settles from the first Show HN carnival.

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Re: Show HN: Show HN

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Post by baddox »

livejamie wrote: post #66
waterside81 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The comments on this post are perfect examples of why it's hard to predict what's going to take off and what won't. And also why it's sometimes a good idea to just give people the benefit of doubt.

These are awesome, are there more?

Does Linux count?

"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones."

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/comp.os.minix/dlN...

Re: Show HN: Show HN

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Post by Sprint »

Arjuna wrote: post #81
rickhanlonii wrote: post #15

Great 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…

I agree 100%. In addition, a friendly reminder to us all... When you see a Show HN, assume that whoever created it, perhaps not unlike you, is working to drive his or her dreams into existence. Each post represents a dream, a personal story, a literal piece of their Life. For many of us, perhaps the majority of us, that means grinding at the mine during the day, returning home after perhaps a long commute, spending t…

The problem is that people are different. Some people will like the diverse community at HN to scrutinise their work to potentially improve it. Otherwise just want positive reinforcement. You can't really put both sides into the same bucket and decide that everyone should sugarcoat all the time.

I love criticising and my projects being criticised as long as there clearly is knowledge or experience behind. What if you see someone making a huge mistake based on your knowledge, should you stay quiet? Making sure that feedback comes across as nice and well-intended can be hard and time consuming for people who speak English as a second or third language.

So maybe there should be a differentiation between "Proudly presenting" and "Looking for honest feedback" somehow?

Re: Show HN: Show HN

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Post by _xzu »

Absolutely great! Sharing your work with peers and getting inspiration from others' work is hard core of hacker culture, so it's nice to see HN to adjust the focus on that way.

I'm little bit worried that Show HN might turn to Spam HN. I think it should be limited so that one url can be posted only once and there should be some kind of update function. Updates would give the post some fixed amount of weight to rise it so that heavily downvoted ones wouldn't rise to front page anymore.

Re: Show HN: Show HN

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Post by kristiandupont »

Hah, contrary to almost any other post, every comment including the top one is positive! That makes me glad and also it forces me to rephrase my one fear a bit.

I hope this won't give people the impression that "show HN" is now a channel where you should submit anything without hesitation. I like the organic nature of it and I think it's partly because you feel like you are asking people for their attention at the party, so you need to feel justified in doing so. But hopefully that will still be the case.

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