Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Hacker News Daily (announcement)

daemonology.net

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

41–50 of 82 posts

Re: Hacker News Daily (announcement)

#43

Post by Kilimanjaro »

niyazpk wrote: post #4

cperciva, I really appreciate the effort you put into this. One thing I find a bit depressing is that even though this scheme hugely reduces the time one spends on HN by filtering the articles according to votes, the top voted articles are not the ones that I would want to read. I usually come here for that "hacker" hacker news (hackerhackernews.com used to be something like this, but now the domain name has expired…

That's exactly why I created http://www.hackerblogs.com if you check HN frontpage right now, there are zero posts by hackers, all come from PR blogs like techcrunch, readwriteweb, thenextweb, etc.

I highly recommend you giving it a try, it is still growing and I hope someday it may become the new source of real hacker news.

* I dare you to find an article like "Flipping arrows in coBurger King" on the news sites right now.

Re: Hacker News Daily (announcement)

#45

Post by zck »

alexandros wrote: post #36
panacea wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit certainly attempted this a few years ago. They had a 'recommended' tab in their main navigation. It worked about as well as their search at the time (ie. completely useless). If I recall, it was based on your activity (this was pre-subreddits) so if you interacted with lots of political stories, for instance, similar political stories would be suggested. The problem was if you downmodded a bunch of articles in…

can anyone find references as to why the feature was removed?

I don't know, but I imagine the resources they needed to commit to it were pretty hefty.

Re: Hacker News Daily (announcement)

#46

Post by bradendouglass »

alexkay wrote: post #24
niyazpk wrote: post #4

cperciva, I really appreciate the effort you put into this. One thing I find a bit depressing is that even though this scheme hugely reduces the time one spends on HN by filtering the articles according to votes, the top voted articles are not the ones that I would want to read. I usually come here for that "hacker" hacker news (hackerhackernews.com used to be something like this, but now the domain name has expired…

I second this! I would gladly pay 5-10 bucks a month for a daily digest of top hacking-related articles (no business, no politics and no Apple rumours/speculations). HN used to be 80% programming and 20% business-related, now it's the opposite.

If you are looking for something that is 100% programming then http://news.usethesource.com/news is a good choice. It is built on the same platform as HN

Disclaimer - I have no affiliation with the amazing peeps at usethesource

Re: Hacker News Daily (announcement)

#50

Post by ergo98 »

niyazpk wrote: post #4

cperciva, I really appreciate the effort you put into this. One thing I find a bit depressing is that even though this scheme hugely reduces the time one spends on HN by filtering the articles according to votes, the top voted articles are not the ones that I would want to read. I usually come here for that "hacker" hacker news (hackerhackernews.com used to be something like this, but now the domain name has expired…

I've taken lots of downvotes lately to say that HN is becoming less hacker and far more generalist.

That happened to virtually every other site: Slashdot, Digg, Reddit. As the site gets attention (because of its core strength of great hacker content) it starts drawing in a non-core audience. Because it's a voting system the non-core articles will start to grow in influence. It loses what drew people in in the first place.

Ah well. It's the circle of sites.

Post reply on HN