Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?

Post by brymaster » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 7:41 PM UTC

simias wrote: post #23

The thing with HN is that there are a lot of interesting threads that get increasingly drowned in "drama" contents: stuff about politics, the NSA, silicon valley drama... See the G+ outrage lately: there are three articles about that at the top of the frontpage that say exactly the same thing with exactly the same comments. It's reddit/4chan tier "pitchforking". The problem seems to be that the community is growing q…

Post by pavedwalden » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 8:03 PM UTC

brymaster wrote: post #91

simias wrote: post #23

The thing with HN is that there are a lot of interesting threads that get increasingly drowned in "drama" contents: stuff about politics, the NSA, silicon valley drama... See the G+ outrage lately: there are three articles about that at the top of the frontpage that say exactly the same thing with exactly the same comments. It's reddit/4chan tier "pitchforking". The problem seems to be that the community is growing q…

Ugh. These meta-HN topics about the "quality" of the discussion come up every six months or so, even dating all the way back to the beginning. Cut it out already. > Poll: How do you feel about making HN invite only? (5 years ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=373789 > Ask HN: Is it just me, or are HN comments becoming more and more negative? (4 years ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=926604 > Why peopl…

Post by dredmorbius » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 8:08 PM UTC

isaacdl wrote: post #70

dredmorbius wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

there are three articles about that at the top of the frontpage that say exactly the same thing with exactly the same comments. Worse, two were based on the same guy at G+ raving about the whole thing.[1] I'm a little curious about how the stories hit the front page and have stayed up so long. I don't know if it's fully organic, if Google's reputation has really suffered that much, if it's specific to the HN communit…

What are some of the good subreddits that would appeal to an HN audience?

Post by chronic25 » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 8:21 PM UTC

wavesounds wrote: post #87

simias wrote: post #23

The thing with HN is that there are a lot of interesting threads that get increasingly drowned in "drama" contents: stuff about politics, the NSA, silicon valley drama... See the G+ outrage lately: there are three articles about that at the top of the frontpage that say exactly the same thing with exactly the same comments. It's reddit/4chan tier "pitchforking". The problem seems to be that the community is growing q…

HN should require you solve some form of fizzbuzz to get voting/posting rights

Post by b0rsuk » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 8:26 PM UTC

simias wrote: post #23

The thing with HN is that there are a lot of interesting threads that get increasingly drowned in "drama" contents: stuff about politics, the NSA, silicon valley drama... See the G+ outrage lately: there are three articles about that at the top of the frontpage that say exactly the same thing with exactly the same comments. It's reddit/4chan tier "pitchforking". The problem seems to be that the community is growing q…

  from itertools import groupby
  
  better_hn = sorted(hn, key=topic)
  better_hn = [topic, len(list(submissions))
    for topic, submissions in groupby(better_hn)]

  for line in better_hn:
      print(line)