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And then there will be nothing to read or I will need to lower my threshold or wait for other people to do that. Prisoners dilemma.
When I click on that link.. it goes back to the main homepage, not the article. What gives?
Seems the high point submissions are frequently pop science or culture articles (e.g., "Amateur astronomers discover a planet with four suns" or "A Very Unusual Camera That Emphasizes Time Over Space"), while the lower point submissions are articles I actually learn from (e.g. "Exploring the Virtual Database Engine inside SQLite" or "How to do a great product promo video for less than $200").
I get enough of the former on Reddit; I come to Hacker News for the latter.
I'll be the grouchy contrarian and observe that I frequently don't like the more highly voted submissions. Seems the high point submissions are frequently pop science or culture articles (e.g., "Amateur astronomers discover a planet with four suns" or "A Very Unusual Camera That Emphasizes Time Over Space"), while the lower point submissions are articles I actually learn from (e.g. "Exploring the Virtual Database Eng…
I think part of the thing that was great about a physical printed paper (I still receive the printed WSJ and NYT) is that you are exposed to things that you wouldn't normally think you would be interested in (you gave two examples of things that I wouldn't normally be interested in). Because these items are pushed to you and you browse past them.
That said it would be nice to be able to identify (ala netflix) articles that you would be interested in. Or at least articles that seem to be of interest to others that pop up all the time in the articles that you read. I've noticed that many of the HN top 20 commenters I never seem comments from presumably because they are posting comments on article that I don't read (or maybe they don't post anymore perhaps).
The other thing that is missing from HN is speed. The site is entirely to slow.
Here are some fun points-related search queries: Comments with the highest number of points: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/comments&q=+&... Stories with the highest number of points: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=+&#... Users with the highest karma: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/users&q=+&sor... "Ask HN:" stories with the highest number of points: http://www.hnsearch.com/searc…
Shht, don't tell anyone! I always user Hacker News with a threshold of 100, but the more people start doing that the fewer there will be left to upvote new articles. And then there will be nothing to read or I will need to lower my threshold or wait for other people to do that. Prisoners dilemma.
I'll be the grouchy contrarian and observe that I frequently don't like the more highly voted submissions. Seems the high point submissions are frequently pop science or culture articles (e.g., "Amateur astronomers discover a planet with four suns" or "A Very Unusual Camera That Emphasizes Time Over Space"), while the lower point submissions are articles I actually learn from (e.g. "Exploring the Virtual Database Eng…
I'll be the grouchy contrarian and observe that I frequently don't like the more highly voted submissions. Seems the high point submissions are frequently pop science or culture articles (e.g., "Amateur astronomers discover a planet with four suns" or "A Very Unusual Camera That Emphasizes Time Over Space"), while the lower point submissions are articles I actually learn from (e.g. "Exploring the Virtual Database Eng…
A tag/keyword system would be ideal but that's a lot of work and tags never seem to turn out as good as they sound.
(also, `larrys`, you died yesterday -- hellbanned, and looking at your comment history yesterday, seems like an entirely inappropriate response from the mods)