You are confusing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_%28programmer_subcultur... with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_%28computer_security%29
They are not mutually exclusive.
Where are the hacker news on Hacker news?
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Re: Where are the hacker news on Hacker news?
#42There's nothing stopping the OP (or anyone) submitting and voting new topics that they like. Looking at his/her profile I see he's only submitted 3 threads & 0 comments. The community here is an active thing, and if you want to it to change, you really have to contribute to it.
The blog itself has only one post on it
Re: Where are the hacker news on Hacker news?
#43It's worth remembering that this board was originally called Startup News. Acquisitions, fundraising is still relevant to that intent at least.
Why was it changed to Hacker News ?
Re: Where are the hacker news on Hacker news?
#44I think there is some merit to this observation. The hacker definition have been stretched more and more, while the posts here still fall within the sites definition of news, there seems to have been a shift to a higher focus on hacking your startup X's round A|B|C|... and less about hacking the technology. tl;dr: I think there have been a shift from hacking the technology to hacking the finance.
I'm not sure this is really a shift. This site was founded by a seed funding organization, so it shouldn't be a surprise to find lots of funding related stories here. It has always been like this as far as I can remember.
Re: Where are the hacker news on Hacker news?
#45Well, let's take a look at a few random points in the past.
Say, March 2008: https://web.archive.org/web/20080302094434/http://news.ycomb...
Some of the headlines: Logo Design Trends 2008, Microsoft May Buy Email Startup Xobni, Rumor: Microsoft about to unveil web-apps strategy, The Coming Death Of Indian Outsourcing.
Doesn't sound so different. Maybe May, 2010? https://web.archive.org/web/20100524025853/http://news.ycomb...
Headlines: Facebook’s ‘Like’ button makes me lonely, Europeans Fear Crisis Threatens Liberal Benefits, Google Map Mashups are About to Get a Lot Better, Amazon's Universal Wish List button.
Okay, maybe from last year, as OP mentioned: https://web.archive.org/web/20130214172414/http://news.ycomb...
Headlines: The United States Redrawn as Fifty States with Equal Population, Disqus bait and switch, now with ads, Berkshire and 3G Capital to Buy Heinz for $23 Billion, I Was a Political Prisoner at Birth in North Korea, How Silicon Valley Fosters Plivo's Cloud-Based Telephony.
Nope, sorry, I don't see it.
Re: Where are the hacker news on Hacker news?
#46There are many alternative places you can check out for pure technical discussions.
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming for example.
Re: Where are the hacker news on Hacker news?
#47It took more than a month to realize that HN community is a small branch of a seed accelerator by Paul Graham. As such, expecting anything more than what you're getting is naive. Of course everybody here is interested on startups and their stories (failures and successes).
That said, ones needs to define what the word hacker stands for. Until 5 years ago, I'd agree that a hacker is a computer geek with strong ties to the security field. Nowadays I am not interested in security as much as building up things and I don't believe that the word should have these kind of restrains anyway.
The average user level on HN is really high for my standards. I see posts ranging from bio-informatics, to mathematics, economics and world politics. But more importantly I see insightful comments from people on and off the discussion field. So yes, this is a hacker's community and the name is appropriate IMHO.
Re: Where are the hacker news on Hacker news?
#48I think there is some merit to this observation. The hacker definition have been stretched more and more, while the posts here still fall within the sites definition of news, there seems to have been a shift to a higher focus on hacking your startup X's round A|B|C|... and less about hacking the technology. tl;dr: I think there have been a shift from hacking the technology to hacking the finance.
The site was originally called Startup News. Hell, see the page from back then: https://web.archive.org/web/20070226001637/http://news.ycomb...
MySpace, Facebook, Delicious, Yahoo, TechStars, Y Combinator, if anything they were even more than now.
Re: Where are the hacker news on Hacker news?
#49Since the content is promoted by the users, Hacker News is what the majority of its readers wants it to be. People that are interested in pure hacking stuff already found better sources, like good subreddits.
Actually, I never understood how promotion works here.
As an example, I submitted a website about a project of our own a couple months ago and got 4 points. Never made it past the "new" page.
A month later, someone else submitted exactly the same project and got 70 votes, getting to the front page and resulting in about 30.000 visits to our site.
Same content, different user.
So is this site about interesting content? Or about WHO submits this content?
Re: Where are the hacker news on Hacker news?
#50I've been lurking on HN now for more than 2years, and the change OP is referring about is totally true... I don't care about boring news coming from TC/Mashable/... Now HN is only about: -Facebook -blogging shit -why no women in IT ? bouhouhou we are all macho jerk.. common grow a pair white knights, smells like virgins over here. -"How Xcompany raised x$$, and why you should definitively not listen to these advices.…
The same '-Facebook -blogging shit -why no women in IT' was definitely a prominent part of HN 2 years ago..
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