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Re: Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love

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Post by jmye »

ohong wrote: post #102
darepublic wrote: post #61

On my pixel 6, viewing on Firefox, the weird scroll snap system prevents me from actually being able to click the original Bitcoin post. I can see it as I pull the web page upward but the page can never settle with it present in the viewport. What I failed to realize is that most viewers of web pages don't care they are more smitten by the love tld and nice font family. The link to og content can be clicked by claw p…

could you try now?

Why did you code it in in the first place? Just get rid of it. There's absolutely no reason to scrolljack on a text-only website.

Re: Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love

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Post by jmye »

joshuamoyers wrote: post #96

i love how half the comments are literally doubling down and simultaneously angrily complaining about auto-scroll. hacker news has become worse than mid 2000s irc.

What an empty complaint. Do you think those criticisms aren't valid (about the projects or auto-scroll)? Or are you just desperately trying to pass snark off as additive insight, instead of snide "caring about things is dumb, you dummies"-level analysis?

Perhaps it's time to look in the mirror?

Re: Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love

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Post by tacitusarc »

hnlmorg wrote: post #50

Some of those comments are completely fair: > Dropbox: I think competitors can duplicate Dropbox’s nice front end That’s exactly what happened. > Bitcoin: “Well this is an exceptionally cute idea, but there is absolutely no way that anyone is going to have any faith in this currency.” This is still true even now > DDG: “I can’t ever see anyone saying ‘just duckduckgo it.’ The name just sounds silly. It makes me think…

I would be willing to bet money they used AI to scrape and curate the comments. The justifications have that feeling of knowledge the sentiment is negative coupled with a lack of understanding about its accuracy.

Re: Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love

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Post by thiht »

hnlmorg wrote: post #50

Some of those comments are completely fair: > Dropbox: I think competitors can duplicate Dropbox’s nice front end That’s exactly what happened. > Bitcoin: “Well this is an exceptionally cute idea, but there is absolutely no way that anyone is going to have any faith in this currency.” This is still true even now > DDG: “I can’t ever see anyone saying ‘just duckduckgo it.’ The name just sounds silly. It makes me think…

The DuckDuckGo name and mascot are still the main reason I don't use it, they're just too dumb, in a not fun way

Re: Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love

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Post by sfink »

PacificSpecific wrote: post #79
embedding-shape wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same, I tried DDG a bunch of times over the years, maybe once every 2 years or so, but never got to the point where it felt it could replace Google. Tried Kagi when it launched, and I'm not sure if it was because Google had deteriorated so much at that point, or Kagi was simply better, but I got way better results in Kagi, and still do. Kagi ended up being what I thought DDG was aiming for, but was never able to reac…

I tried kagi started years ago. It had some really interesting and deep results when I was planning my wedding but failed elsewhere. I should try it again.

With the same spouse or ...? Surely your criteria for a life partner extend beyond the desire to test search engines?

(Sorry)

Re: Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love

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Post by qbane »

hnlmorg wrote: post #56
oscillik wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Back before Google was huge, no-one used any of the other popular search engine names as a synonym for 'searched the world wide web'. We didn't say "I Yahoo!'d for recipes", or "I Excited the latest film releases". We can go back.

The point isn’t that we can’t use generic adverbs. It’s that DDG’s name makes it unrealistic to use their brand as an adverb, which loses them more exposure.

cf. Kagi is a good take

Re: Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love

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Post by ilaksh »

m_mueller wrote: post #34

This looks like an underhanded comment about Openclaw. Tbf. I might be exactly that kinda person the site is referring to, but I have a really hard time seeing this thing as any more than one of those blips on the radar that gets forgotten about quickly again, e.g. more clubhouse (remember that?) and less dropbox.

It's already proven to not be just a blip on the radar. Even if everyone forgets about it today.

He got 221000 (as of today) GitHub stars, motivated thousands of projects, and immediately some of the largest companies on the planet attempted to hire him. And he settled on a job with the most popular AI company. The guy who invented the term "vibe coding" declared that tools like his were a new category above LLM agents.

But your comment is just dismissive.

I think the point of the HN love thing is that if founders take the tone of individual comments like yours or the overall HN response to heart, then that could be a fatal mistake.

If he had posted earlier and gone by comments like yours that dismissed it, then that would indicate he should not continue to put energy into it. Why would he have kept putting his time into something that the only thing worth saying about it is that it's going to be a blip on the radar?

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