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The easiest way is to just email and ask if a story is a good fit. I don’t think that will scale, but if a story is legitimately interesting and your email is short, you might find it’s given preference. The full-time goal of HN is to stay interesting at every timestep. A lot of the reason people’s interesting stories don’t get upvoted is that there are so many interesting stories to talk about each day, and there ar…
Email who?
Must we gameify everything? Reverse engineering serendipity is such a miserable way to think/exist.
Though, the article is actually pretty interesting and points people in the direction of the type of mindset that is appreciated and promoted on HackerNews - being a maker, and having a curious personality (and sharing it here).
I think the info in this article could be gamified a bit, but really, it's usually pretty obvious if someone is sharing something out of genuine interest in it. It's pretty hard to pretend to be nerding out about a more efficient algorithm or how to hack together a programmable mirror.
The easiest way is to just email and ask if a story is a good fit. I don’t think that will scale, but if a story is legitimately interesting and your email is short, you might find it’s given preference. The full-time goal of HN is to stay interesting at every timestep. A lot of the reason people’s interesting stories don’t get upvoted is that there are so many interesting stories to talk about each day, and there ar…
Email who?
Must we gameify everything? Reverse engineering serendipity is such a miserable way to think/exist.
Must we gameify everything? Reverse engineering serendipity is such a miserable way to think/exist.
Must we gameify everything? Reverse engineering serendipity is such a miserable way to think/exist.
My gut reaction was: Please keep the karma farming to Reddit - if you must... Though, the article is actually pretty interesting and points people in the direction of the type of mindset that is appreciated and promoted on HackerNews - being a maker, and having a curious personality (and sharing it here). I think the info in this article could be gamified a bit, but really, it's usually pretty obvious if someone is s…
aka "participate in the site" (via show and ask)
There are times of high usage as evident from analysis of front page, and new page postings, let this read as "more users on the board make more votes possible for any one comment or submission". Be genuine. find things that are interesting to you, and are willing to discuss with others. HN is like the digital/intellectual version of walking into a fitness club and seeing the different levels of expertise and the spe…