Hacker News Highlights, August to November 2018
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Hacker News Highlights, August to November 2018
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Re: Hacker News Highlights, August to November 2018
#2This is great. I have never seen this posted before on HN so I did a search and saw these have been put together sporadically for at least the last three years with seemingly little engagement. I wonder why that is. These posts highlight some of the best things about this website/community. I would love to see them more often or have them receive more promotion.
Re: Hacker News Highlights, August to November 2018
#3I really like the concept of this article and would love to see this quarterly, bi-monthly, or monthly!
I also would prefer if the comment text were rendered in actual text instead of screenshots, as the low resolution is really obvious. Hope true text makes it into the next one of these.
Re: Hacker News Highlights, August to November 2018
#4My personal favorite (which I was involved in), was people willing to openly test one my applications:
https://twitter.com/AustinGWalters/status/104189476543920128...
It was fun / exciting to see it work, plus from all the emails I got there was a lot of interest. I personally enjoy the collaborative nature of Hacker News, although these posts are also interesting and highlight the breadth of knowledge here.
From the list in the post, my personal favorite was meeting Rick Jay: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18555353
Re: Hacker News Highlights, August to November 2018
#5This is great. I have never seen this posted before on HN so I did a search and saw these have been put together sporadically for at least the last three years with seemingly little engagement. I wonder why that is. These posts highlight some of the best things about this website/community. I would love to see them more often or have them receive more promotion.
You can subscribe to receive the emails. I do and often there's pretty interesting stuff in there.
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#6> Here are some of our favorite Hacker News comments
a) Who is 'our'? And why is HN typically opaque like this? [1]
b) Why are they some of your favorite comments? Reasons?
[1] As I have noted in the past in comments I have made the mods don't even say they are mods. It's like a secret society where you have to figure it out over time or be clued in. Example dang's profile [2] doesn't say he is a mod. Even PG's profile said 'bug fixer'. [3]
Why have people infer the relationship. What's preventing anyone from coming up with a handle and the acting like a mod?
Re: Hacker News Highlights, August to November 2018
#7This is great. I have never seen this posted before on HN so I did a search and saw these have been put together sporadically for at least the last three years with seemingly little engagement. I wonder why that is. These posts highlight some of the best things about this website/community. I would love to see them more often or have them receive more promotion.
You can subscribe to receive the emails. I do and often there's pretty interesting stuff in there.
Is the subscribe link at the bottom of that page specifically for this type of stuff? There is nothing visually connecting that to the article and it only uses the vague phrase "updates from Y Combinator". I am one of those HN users who comes here for the tech topics much more than the startup topics. I therefore don't have much interest in Y Combinator outside of being thankful that they host this site. I don't really want every blog entry they post to be emailed to me but I will happily sign up if it is more this type of content.
Re: Hacker News Highlights, August to November 2018
#8This is great. I have never seen this posted before on HN so I did a search and saw these have been put together sporadically for at least the last three years with seemingly little engagement. I wonder why that is. These posts highlight some of the best things about this website/community. I would love to see them more often or have them receive more promotion.
If engagement is the priority, my suggestion would be to build this curation into HN itself instead of using a post on a separate blog. Give the admins a way to tag a comment as highlighted, then present those comments in some visually distinct way and add a link to the nav that jumps you to a list of all highlighted comments.
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#9These are great. I also try to collect interesting discussions and comments at
https://www.reddit.com/r/HNDepthHub
I would appreciate other contributors.
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#10I did not intend to read this from beginning to the end. Talk about a sticky article.
Consider quoting the text directly though. Making images of text is probably the most inaccessible thing imaginable. Should take less than a hundred lines of CSS to create a believable HN container in a div.