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Interesting how the articles on the HN homepage are almost timeless. Many of those articles I find just as interesting as the one's posted on today's homepage (perhaps more interesting since there's more programming and less consumer tech news).
Interesting how the articles on the HN homepage are almost timeless. Many of those articles I find just as interesting as the one's posted on today's homepage (perhaps more interesting since there's more programming and less consumer tech news).
A lot of good content is buried in archives of good blogs/news sites, and popular aggregators such as Flipboard completely ignore anything but the freshest materials. I worked on FavoritePosts.com a while back, it basically helps you discover older content that's otherwise invisible due to our existing content consumption habits. Maybe I should launch what I have so far.. It's like Prismatic for older stuff.
6th item on the list --> "8 points by hhm 9 hours ago" Wow, talk about points inflation!
hhm was my previous username, but I lost its password now. Probably after switching accounts some years ago, after becoming a little paranoid about internet identity (I even sent a mail asking pg to remove that account... he was smarter than me and said he wouldn't do that; thanks pg). I now realize I shouldn't care so much about that really.
By that time, I realized that it might be easy to get into the leaderboard just by posting quality links of stuff I was interested into. I put some effort into that by some time and I reached (I think) the 10th place. I stored a screenshot about that, named something like "and-what-was-that-for.jpg" that I can't find right now. But I remember noticing a couple things about that experience:
- how empty it was after I achieved that random objective... it was just some score, and it didn't serve any useful purpose, so once I achieved it I couldn't feel too happy about it
and the most interesting bit:
- it was very easy to get into, say, the 20th or 15th spot. But then raising into the 10th spot was much harder. I understood that people between 15 - 200 weren't trying to reach that kind of score, or they weren't trying too hard. People don't compete too much. Then when approximating the 10th spot, I found that it was getting increasingly harder. I'm sure somebody trying to get into the 1st or 2nd spot would have to spend an amazing amount of work into that.
It was just a game I played for some short span of time, then I quit. Now I miss that account a little bit :)
Interesting how the articles on the HN homepage are almost timeless. Many of those articles I find just as interesting as the one's posted on today's homepage (perhaps more interesting since there's more programming and less consumer tech news).
A lot of good content is buried in archives of good blogs/news sites, and popular aggregators such as Flipboard completely ignore anything but the freshest materials. I worked on FavoritePosts.com a while back, it basically helps you discover older content that's otherwise invisible due to our existing content consumption habits. Maybe I should launch what I have so far.. It's like Prismatic for older stuff.
- Passwords are still just as broken now as they were then.
- Functional programming is still widely discussed, though the focus is more on Lisp than Clojure/Haskell/etc.
- Fourth post is the usual, somewhat sensationalist, this commonly-accepted thing is bad! sort of headline that makes the rounds here every so often.
- This post on syntax highlighting [1] reminds me of another recent one [2].
- 37signals is there with another sage-like statement on the business.
- Article on women in tech in slot #13.
- Woah, is that Clojure there in #14? And on SourceForge, even. It's come a long way since then.
- Fears about government invasion of privacy abound.
- Hey, MySpace! That spam "epidemic" never quite subsided, it seems.
- Interesting mathematical discussion in slot #24. When reading the headline, I almost expected to read "stackoverflow.com" in the domain slot. Goes to show how popular that sort of post is here nowadays.
As someone who wasn't around back then, it's interesting to look back on this now and see what the site I love now was like five years ago.
[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20071110115358/http://drinkbroken...
And here I was operating under the illusion that we were innovating...
Oh well, time to go and make a new photo uploading site.
Interesting how the articles on the HN homepage are almost timeless. Many of those articles I find just as interesting as the one's posted on today's homepage (perhaps more interesting since there's more programming and less consumer tech news).
A lot of good content is buried in archives of good blogs/news sites, and popular aggregators such as Flipboard completely ignore anything but the freshest materials. I worked on FavoritePosts.com a while back, it basically helps you discover older content that's otherwise invisible due to our existing content consumption habits. Maybe I should launch what I have so far.. It's like Prismatic for older stuff.
I've been thinking about how those who up-vote stories on HN very carefully have an enormous wealth of interesting content in the "saved stories" section their profiles. It's such a shame that this is value is locked away: Somebody could generate pages and pages of amazingly interesting content based on other people who upvote similar to themselves.