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Love to know more about the HW and SW stacks that service HN.
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Here's what the HN homepage looked like on the day it launched (Ocb 9, 2006) https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-09 (Funny timing, I just discovered this feature yesterday.)
Interesting day: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2017-10-09 Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile the same day Librem 5 was funded.
Interesting to see how stable the design of Hacker News has been. Here’s the earliest I c Ould find in the Wayback Machine – from 21st February, 2007: https://web.archive.org/web/20070221033032/http://news.ycomb... Some changes – most notably the name – but you could easily mistake it for the current design at a glance.
Which is interesting, considering it's so bad on mobile.
I like that it renders quickly, shows lots of articles, and shows lots of comments.
It takes concentration to vote and hide links, but I think it’s optimized for reading and commenting. Better than any other forum, I think.
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Which is interesting, considering it's so bad on mobile.
I use it 95% on mobile and rarely curse the UI. I like that it renders quickly, shows lots of articles, and shows lots of comments. It takes concentration to vote and hide links, but I think it’s optimized for reading and commenting. Better than any other forum, I think.
Everything is tiny.
I can't believe I've been a HN user for 14 years. Things come and go but HN was one of the very very few web sites that I visited pretty much every day for this whole time. Except for rare hiking trip days. It's also amazing how the spirit and the quality stay more or less the same here. I guess not all Eternal September effects are alike.
Love it here. It does seem like the discussion here has become quite a bit less technical, but I think that is really just due to a de-emphasis on the important of low-level tech understanding in the startup space.
It would be interesting to see an update on this article, especially how the conversation has evolved, and its quality preserved, with moderation from @dang and others since 2014. https://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hac...
I'm not going to get into the changes I observe because I don't want to start a long, off-topic thread. But I think if you pay close enough attention, you can see changes in HN over short periods of time.
Even between weekdays and weekends, HN changes.
Love to know more about the HW and SW stacks that service HN.
I can't believe I've been a HN user for 14 years. Things come and go but HN was one of the very very few web sites that I visited pretty much every day for this whole time. Except for rare hiking trip days. It's also amazing how the spirit and the quality stay more or less the same here. I guess not all Eternal September effects are alike.
HN homepage on the day it launched (Oct 9, 2006)
https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-9
I've been a power lurker for years and had a few accounts. I can't imagine my life without HN. I'm here almost everyday, at least once a day. What I'm getting at is this ; picture coming here and finding literally 0 submissions [0] ... This was a somewhat surreal and shocking experience, like seeing the completely deserted downtown at the beginning of the pandemic. If the site just went away it wouldn't be as bad as this. Picture showing up to the bar, work, or whatever and no one else is there. Like they're all dead or something. I don't usually feel lonely, but I would on that day. I could quite possibly cry or have a panic attack or something.
I came to realize HN is my third place [1] and it has become possibly even more important to me during this goddamn pandemic. Thank you all for coming here. I love you guys.
It would be interesting to see an update on this article, especially how the conversation has evolved, and its quality preserved, with moderation from @dang and others since 2014. https://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hac...
I'm a youngster compared with most people's tenure on HN, but I've noticed a change in the place since the planet went into lockdown. I'm not going to get into the changes I observe because I don't want to start a long, off-topic thread. But I think if you pay close enough attention, you can see changes in HN over short periods of time. Even between weekdays and weekends, HN changes.