Beyond the Front Page: A Personal Guide to Hacker News

Post by 1718627440 » Tue, Sep 23, 2025, 4:46 PM UTC

pembrook wrote: post #70

_fat_santa wrote: post #9

IMO one of the things that makes HN so special is the "culture" here. Having been on here since 2018, most folks here are acutely aware of the issues that other sites like Reddit have and we all collectively work to preserve this space so it doesn't become like the other places. If I see a meme on Reddit I would probably upvote it, but if I see that exact same meme on here I would downvote and probably report it too.…

I would say that was true until recently (have basically been lurking for a decade), but this year in particular it feels like HN has gone full Reddit. More and more topics somehow devolve into emotional political fights instead of intellectual debates.

Post by 1718627440 » Tue, Sep 23, 2025, 4:49 PM UTC

rdmuser wrote: post #63

jstrieb wrote: post #54

This post recommends the Newsit extension to view Hacker News discussion associated with a page. In the same vein, a few years ago, I made a Firefox extension for users who want a privacy-preserving way to see if pages have associated HN discussion: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hacker-news-d... Most other extensions probably hit an external API (such as Algolia) to check submission status, which mea…

Personally I use this bookmarklet to check if sites have been submitted since I like to minimize extensions: javascript:void(location.href="https://hn.algolia.com/?query="+location.href)

Post by rldjbpin » Tue, Sep 23, 2025, 7:48 PM UTC