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Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator

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Post by zfg »

dang wrote: post #219
zfg wrote: post #216

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But you're not willing to be upfront by including that information on the user's account. That's opaque.

No, that's formal. Formal systems that purport to answer all questions in advance are a bureaucratic bane, and as long as I'm in charge of HN, we won't go there. I'm confident that the community feels the same way. If there's any information that someone wants to find out about HN or HN moderation, all they need to do is ask us.

Dude, you're leaving people guessing. That's no good. That is not nice "informality".

Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator

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Post by [deleted] »

zfg wrote: post #221
dang wrote: post #219

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No, that's formal. Formal systems that purport to answer all questions in advance are a bureaucratic bane, and as long as I'm in charge of HN, we won't go there. I'm confident that the community feels the same way. If there's any information that someone wants to find out about HN or HN moderation, all they need to do is ask us.

Dude, you're leaving people guessing. That's no good. That is not nice "informality".

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Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator

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Post by tjmc »

Congratulations YC! I remember prior to HN, pg used to post his essays to Slashdot under the username Bugbear and all the attendant sniping and lame memes that would come back in response. Hacker News was a breath of fresh air and continues to be my favourite online community.

Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator

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Post by SLHamlet »

echelon wrote: post #106
cobbaut wrote: post #104

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> HN has been my very favorite website that I consciously open every day since last ~15 years. It is the portal to get the ambient and relevant view of the techland. I bet a lot of people here would say the same thing about Slashdot ten to fifteen years ago. @HN: Thanks and please don't change.

HN has outlasted Slashdot by a wide margin at this point. IIRC, Slashdot stopped being great around the same time as the decline of the Digg era. It started to sink in quality around 2007, which gave it ten years at most of being a central part of the online tech community (1997 - 2007). I started reading HN in 2008. It's lasted nearly twenty years as an incredible community. Here are some graphs: https://nwn.blogs.c…

LOL thanks for the link!

Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator

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Post by dang »

very_good_man wrote: post #134

Hey as a 20th birthday gift to the internet, why not stop censoring comments?

HN has always been a curated/moderated site. I'm not really sure what "censor" means other than that, at least in the context of an internet forum like HN.

We basically moderate posts that break the site guidelines (the ones that we see, at least).

Is there a particular post that you feel was censored that should not have been? I'd be interested to take a look.

Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator

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Post by hakaneskici »

dang wrote: post #211
hakaneskici wrote: post #136

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Thank you so much! Sent an email :)

Alas we didn't make it work. I was ready to gloat over recovering your old account—probably got overconfident and jinxed it. Hopefully more information will resurface and we'll get it done another day.

Thank you for all your efforts and immediate attention, sorry that I couldn't make your job easier. What mattered the most was that I got a chance to have a brief chat with the actual human being behind the legendary HN username that makes everything run smoothly. Cheers, Daniel!

Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator

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Post by pvg »

dredmorbius wrote: post #198
pvg wrote: post #182

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HN is increasingly a significant participant in current US politics. HN is about the size of a medium-popular subreddit. Its impact on US politics is not much different than that of /r/relationshipadvice.

HN is the media arm of a venture fund with a portfolio nearing a trillion dollars, as mentioned prominently in TFA. If you want to talk size, the US House has 438 members, the Senate 100, the Supreme court 9. Their significance has nothing to do with size and everything to do with position, connections, and capacity. HN punches far above its weight.

HN is the media arm of a venture fund

I'm looking at a medium sized nerd messageboard. Obviously that's not a meaningful thing to compare to a legislative body or court.

Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator

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Post by dailyplanet »

I used to look up to YCombinator, but now I am disappointed in the role YCombinator played in platforming anti-democratic figures like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Nick Land, Curtis Yarvin, etc. who espouse scientific racism and eugenics with their obsession of race-based IQ levels and their desire for European whites to dominate over others. Big Tech's disruption model is not good for stability and notions of tolerance and decency. Happy 20th Birthday I guess.

Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator

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Post by [deleted] »

mempko wrote: post #156
callc wrote: post #143

HN is the only internet community I’ve found to be largely good. Thank you to everyone for all your kind posts and comments, and intellectual discussion. Love to you all.

It's a good community. The part I struggle with is the anti-science trend I've seen here over the last 10 years.

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Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator

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Post by tomhoward »

redox99 wrote: post #110
matsemann wrote: post #49

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1 indexed? Edit: HN is apparently written in Arc, a dialect of Lisp.

Almost all DBs have a default starting ID of 1.

Indeed, though HN didn't use a database when it was first built.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3515628

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