HN's immune system is Erlang it seems.
Hacker News full of Erlang articles
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#22This is old news. Why is it being posted, save for the couple of Erlang submissions at the top?
I'm guessing the submitter is making a suggestion to deal with the _why/Zed Shaw articles.
...which is silly. There were maybe three _why-related articles left on the front page -- now half the articles are Erlang.
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#23i personally don't like _why, his writings, his code, his neuroses, or anything else about him. in the beginning i was willing to hold my tongue, because he was pseudo-dead, his fans were holding a eulogy of sorts, and that's hardly the time to be a critic.
the 15th or 20th submission on the front page was way too much, though. i am now officially supporting the backlash. bring on the erlang.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
I personally just want to see a return to more technical topics and less human-interest pieces - if I wanted those I'd turn on the 6 o'clock news. I love reading random stuff on languages/tools I don't even use - it expands my breadth and is always fun. I've never written Erlang, but now I may give it a shot. This is what HN is great for, let's keep it that way.
I do too, but right now a directory of Erlang-related articles is on the front page of HN, along with a niche-interest article about patching Erlang for a future version of OS X. This was cute the first time, but now it's kind of inane.
This is a one-day thing (or so I would hope), but I hope the overall effect would be to drag HN back towards its roots - as an interesting place for technology discussion in all its forms.
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#25i somehow feel like hacker news is tail-recursive, and we've been unrolled by the compiler and are now back at the top of the loop.
Hilarious. I was just scanning the headlines and thinking "WTF is up with all these Erlang articles?!" I'm trying to decide if posting this article is ironic or annoying.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
I do too, but right now a directory of Erlang-related articles is on the front page of HN, along with a niche-interest article about patching Erlang for a future version of OS X. This was cute the first time, but now it's kind of inane.
This is a one-day thing (or so I would hope), but I hope the overall effect would be to drag HN back towards its roots - as an interesting place for technology discussion in all its forms.
. . . or maybe the effect will be to make people whose level of interest in Erlang is somewhere on this side of sane stop coming to Hacker News, and go back to the programming subreddit.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not a bad gambit actually -- I'll sometimes turn on my air conditioner to drown out the sound of my neighbour's music. The analogy only works if, like me, you consider Erlang articles to be a sort of white noise that you hardly notice, and the-programmer-formerly-known-as-_why articles as being slightly annoying.
It appears to be working, too.
. . . if, by "working", you mean "replacing one form of noise with another, much louder form that will probably outlast the likely lifespan of the original form".
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm guessing the submitter is making a suggestion to deal with the _why/Zed Shaw articles.
...which is silly. There were maybe three _why-related articles left on the front page -- now half the articles are Erlang.
It's worse than that, now. I count 78% Erlang on the front page of Hacker News.
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#30HN's immune system is Erlang it seems.
yes this is the second time. I am guessing the _why posts tripped the trigger?
There had been rash of things I have flagged lately, so obviously enough people it was decided to "cleanse" things a bit.