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I actually wish someone just throw up a vbulletin install for all the off-topic discussions. That's really what people want. All these Ask YC/HN stuff, people wanting profiles or avatars, etc.
done... http://www.thehackerforum.com/
Also, that I had a pony.
The creation of a non-hacker news site seems a bit knee-jerk. Would it not have been better to have waited a few days to see how the recent debate has affected the quality of submissions?
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I meant off-topic in the way that most people who claim things are off-topic mean it, hence the quotes.
I was half joking, I actually did read the FAQ. Personally I would go the other way. I would rather keep the intellectually gratifying articles from the NYT magazine, salon, TED, the new yorker, marc cuban's blog, edge.org, etc. and get rid of the esoteric programming articles and cliche business advice. To me what makes hacker news boring is all the front page articles about erlang libraries and cloud computing.
This is the direction the HN front page seems to be heading. Maybe you have a lot of kindred spirits!
I have a biz/financial news site that used to be for my personal use but everyone's welcome to sign up and use it. It's running Arc + HN forum soft. It's still heavily beta as I use it as a testing ground for some AI/NLP stuff that I'm writing in Arc. I dig out a ton of great links but only a fraction are god for HN, hence a new site for biz & finance. In my past life I used to work in finance so I'm still attached t…
I don't think there is an equivalent to this, but the name might be a turn off for some. There are many great minds not totally interested in turning into a mogul. They might see themselves as already being moguls and thus think this site is a place for n00bs.
Two suggestions - totally personal, so curious what other's think: 1) get rid of the front page dominating "welcome", I think it's unnecessary and annoying - people will click on the link and read more if they want to. 2) make the interface exactly like hacker news. For instance I think the bold titles is a bit distracting, esp after navigating over from hn. 3) one of my favorite features of hn is that I can often ju…
Firefox has a (to my knowledge -- undocumented) bookmark keyword feature which allows assigning keywords to bookmarks. These keywords can then be typed into the location bar and firefox with automatically load the bookmark. The keyword input box only pops up when you right-click on the bookmark and go to properties. This along with the search keywords probably account for ~40% of my speed when surfing. (tabs account…
My attempt at taming HN http://pipes.yahoo.com/lunatech/hackernews> ;