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The Macro
- jakozaur 11y agoY Combinator expands its media conglomerate: 1. Starts from books "Founders at works". 2. Startup School. 3. Hacker News. 4. Paul Graham essays. 5. Startup class. 6. Macro. 7. ???, but already excited
- TeMPOraL 11y agoN+1. An image sharing serivce that is to HN what imgur is to Reddit. For posting screenshots of your startup's growth metrics.
- mbrock 11y agoThey might really tie together the fixpoint loop if they turn HN into some kind of post-StackOverflow type reputation forum for hackers and businesspeople. Investors need reputable hunches, companies need insights and clever people, and commenters love to gain social karma status especially if it might land them better jobs or chances to talk with interesting/rich/powerful people. Discussion is fundamental to the whole ecosystem. HN is a primitive weekend hack yet still pretty valuable.
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- cryoshon 11y agoBlogging platform to rival the other startup-y blog platforms out there.
- loyalelectron 11y agoI'm Colleen, the editor of The Macro. Happy to answer any questions and hear feedback!
- wmeredith 11y agoNo questions. Although as UI Designer/Developer with 10 years experience under my belt, I have to say I'm in love with site's design. If the content matches in caliber, we're in for a treat. Best of luck!
- loyalelectron 11y agoThank you! Kevin Hale (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kevin https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kevin) is the designer/developer. I love it too.
- adriancooney 11y agoFantastic job by Kevin. His talks are fantastic and you can clearly see his work here. He should take a stab at updating the frontpage!
- Falcon9 11y agoWent to check out Kevin's own website (roundedbygravity) and the css seems to be 404ing.
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- euroclydon 11y agoIt's a nice design. But they should probably disable the article header mouse effects (color change, pointer cursor) once an article is selected.
- d0m 11y agoLooking forward to read great stories/articles from all partners. That's something I wished I had the time for when I was in YC.. i.e. individually talking to each partners and learning about the previous startups and great stories they'd be willing to share. Hopefully we could read some of them on the Macro : )
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- rileywatkins 11y agoHacker News Highlights[0] is something I didn't even know I needed. There's some great content to be found here (including some insightful comments), but the sheer volume of content means I'm probably missing out on most of it. [0] http://macro.ycombinator.com/articles/2015/11/hacker-news-highlights/ http://macro.ycombinator.com/articles/2015/11/hacker-news-hi...
- jt2190 11y ago> the sheer volume of content means I'm probably missing > out on most of it. I guess I'm one of those old-timers who misses the days when the submissions were more focused on startups and less about government policy, macro economics, and whatever else. (I'm quite biased toward consuming information that is useful and actionable rather than merely interesting, so I realize that puts me at odds with the site's stated policy.) (edit: phrasing)
- davidw 11y agoI don't think most of the policy stuff is even all that 'interesting'. 'Interesting' is learning something new for the sake of learning about the world. Most of the policy stuff is more like "look at this outrageous thing!". In many cases, it's true that the thing in question is important - probably more important than startups/hacking - but there are plenty of other places for those kinds of links/discussions.
- ethbro 11y agoEveryone has their own conscious and unconscious biases for news preferences. At least as far as my conscious, I like to use "Does this better help me relate to the world?" as a yardstick. I don't think anyone would argue that it's best practice to make decisions with substantial amounts of missing knowledge, yet I feel like there are a huge number of startups founded via the "I am a white, middle-class, college-attending male, and this is one of my problems that I want to solve" selector. That's all well and good, I don't expect every freshman to be an expert on {insert problem outside that subclass} for {insert region outside US/EUR}, but... if we're serious about solving important world problems, then the people who are going to solve them need to at least be aware that it's a problem. Aka the malaria argument
- jacquesm 11y agoStrange use of a 'colofon', normally it lists information about the publisher rather than just the fonts used to make the publication.
- applecore 11y agoHistorically, the term colophon was also used to indicate the brief statement at the end of a book with details about how it was printed.
- jacquesm 11y agoAh, I see. Ok, normally the 'colofon' pages I'm familiar with - especially with publications like periodicals - will include that info but only as an afterthought or a footnote, the 'meat' is the details behind the publisher, addresses, people involved (editor) and so on.
- GavinMcG 11y agoHistorically, you're right, but it strikes me that I haven't read a book in the last ten years whose labeled colophon didn't focus on typesetting. Of course, all the publication information is in the front matter, just not labeled in the same way.
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- urs2102 11y agoGreat name! I'm wondering if this will be like Reddit's Upvoted trying to surface interesting content from Hacker News, or if this will be focused on allowing submissions and collecting ideas to distribute as a publication? Looking forward to seeing what comes out of it.
- loyalelectron 11y agoI'm Colleen, the editor of The Macro. Thank you! It's more focused on the latter, but there is a "Hacker News Highlights" section that we'll probably update semi-regularly.
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- carsongross 11y agoExcellent aesthetic. HN looks charmingly terrible. TM pays homage to it, but is significantly better looking. Well done, designer.
- SapphireSun 11y agoHaven't had a chance to read the articles yet, but I'm a fan of how well designed the site feels while still feeling like I'm on hacker news. That slight motion on the tab hover states feels very nice and the large orange block of text is great. I can't help but read the headline.
- minimaxir 11y agoWhy isn't there a comments section in the articles? :P I'm surprised here isn't a link to the analogous HN thread, at the least. (Akin to the implementation in Reddit's Upvoted) Relatedly, there should be an official bot (like whoishiring) to auto-submit themacro.com links to HN anyways to avoid race conditions for Karma.
- Maken 11y agoHN is the comments section, I guess.
- loyalelectron 11y agoIt was difficult to decide how to handle comments and whether to have them at all, so we opted to just leave them out for now. I like both of those ideas -- adding in a link to an article's analogous HN thread, and the official submit bot.
- mbrock 11y agoComment threads are infinite, sprawling, and often infuriating. It's nice to have a peaceful place aside from that. Us commenters will find a way to comment anyway.
- noir_lord 11y agoVery much this, I use Ublock Origin to hide comments on all the news stuff I consume since they are generally just noise that detracts from good content (outside of specific sub-reddits and this place anyway).
- delish 11y agothat's a great use! I'm gonna do that. I've been blocking headers and footers of webpages because I have a 16:9 screen and need all the vertical space can get. as "web 1.0" as it sounds, I love that I get to decide how webpages appear on my computer.
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- TeMPOraL 11y agoBug report: URLs are broken in the articles - they append to the article's address. See e.g. [0]. EDIT: I've been seeing a steady increase of this particular bug on the Internet, usually in blog and news articles. I wonder if this isn't a direct consequence of browser vendors removing protocol from the address bar? I.e. people just copy-paste a part of an address and don't notice that the browser didn't append the protocol part. [0] - http://macro.ycombinator.com/articles/2015/11/science-startups/ http://macro.ycombinator.com/articles/2015/11/science-startu...
- kevin 11y agoOops. Fixing now. thanks for letting us know!
- TeMPOraL 11y agoYou're welcome :). The site is beautiful. I also want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for providing an Atom feed and a visible link to it!
- mancites 11y agoHello Kevin, In your article, I think there are 4 errors, which I surround with brackets: 1 This is a visual essay, which is [every] different. 2 [Everyone one] of those items is a piece of information. 3 Normally, it’s not ideal to show a slide with every potential [comeptitor] out on the market. 4 However, these logos represent how annoying it would be for users to get what they want [themsevles] using each of these companies. Thanks for the article and design. (:
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- kevin 11y agoGreat eyes. Thanks!
- DanBC 11y agoThat's lovely. The Hacker News highlights is really nice. I was a bit confused at first because I have images turned off. But mostly I really love this. Thank you.
- kevin 11y agoAh. I'll add alt tags to those images and that should help you and other fellow text browsers.
- spuiszis 11y agoLove the idea. I'm glad to hear they are using Middleman for the site, it has been a joy to develop with. I highly recommend checking it out if you're looking to build a static site [0]. [0] https://middlemanapp.com/basics/install/ https://middlemanapp.com/basics/install/
- aresant 11y agoVery cool! Quick note on Kevin's article, I'm getting a 404 on the link titled "bottom of the slide." w/link to: http://macro.ycombinator.com/images/ddaytips/ddaytips.034.jpg http://macro.ycombinator.com/images/ddaytips/ddaytips.034.jp...
- kevin 11y agoDang. Should be png. http://themacro.com/images/ddaytips/ddaytips.034-e3a53b28.png http://themacro.com/images/ddaytips/ddaytips.034-e3a53b28.pn... Also, there is a bug I see.
- Geekette 11y agoQuestion for the Macro peeps: Does one still need to subscribe for the publication if already on YC mailing list? My inbox is currently chaos land and I want to avoid duplicate missives.
- austenallred 11y agoMy email from YC had a button that let me subscribe, so I assume they're seperate
- kevin 11y agoWe'll be treating them as separate.
- fascinated 11y agoHad to read like 3x to realize it wasn't Marco's new project
- rhubarbquid 11y agoI read it as "The Marco" at first too
- cheetos 11y agoThis is wonderful. Looking forward to reading this in the future. One suggestion to improve readability: use text-align: left instead of text-align: justify on the body text.
- zallarak 11y agoReally impressed by the fast page loads and readability. This matters more than anything and they nailed it. I wish other publications thought like this.
- edent 11y agoCould you please get https support? macro.ycombinator.com uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is only valid for *.cloudfront.net Thanks :-)
- fauigerzigerk 11y agoExcellent web design. Love it!
- jimbobimbo 11y agoThank your for including RSS feed!
- coetry 11y agoI'm so excited by this. The name, the simplicity, the overall vibes. Looking forward to some quality content as the weeks go by.
- avip 11y agoLooks sup. Note to FE chef: reader view seems broken on FF (article 'header' missing).
- blfr 11y agoI had no idea there's a Startup School Podcast. http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:150759713/sounds.rss http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:150759713...
- Walkman 11y agoI'm getting ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED error. Is it just me?
- kevindeasis 11y agoThe link is down on my browser (DNS lookup failed).
- pg_is_a_butt 11y agoname not resolved, morons.
- orbitur 11y agoI'm getting a Chrome ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED on all of the "macro.ycombinator.com" links here. "ycombinator.com" works, however.
- Jarred 11y agoSame
- free2rhyme214 11y agoIt was working a few minutes ago. I'm sure it'll be up soon.
- allpratik 11y agoyes, macro sub domain seems to be down.
- kevin 11y agoLooks like an issue with a redirect. Everything is at: http://themacro.com http://themacro.com
- mh- 11y ago;; QUESTION SECTION: ;macro.ycombinator.com. IN A ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: ycombinator.com. 831 IN SOA ns-225.awsdns-28.com. awsdns-hostmaster.amazon.com. 1 7200 900 1209600 86400 ;; Query time: 60 msec no A record here.
- avip 11y agoand... it's down.
- rrtwo 11y agohttp://yc-macro-redirect.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/index.html http://yc-macro-redirect.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/index.ht... This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below. <Error> <Code>AccessDenied</Code> <Message>Access Denied</Message> <RequestId>...</RequestId> <HostId> ... </HostId> </Error>
- kevindeasis 11y agoLooks like someone forgot to add view permission for everyone.
- rrtwo 11y agogetting this error on other articles too (e.g., http://yc-macro-redirect.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/articles/2015/11/science-startups/ http://yc-macro-redirect.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/articles...)
- justplay 11y agouse "cache:" in front of url in chrome. it will get the cache copy. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sourceid=chrome-psyapi2&ion=1&ie=UTF-8&q=cache%3Amacro.ycombinator.com&oq=cache%3Amacro.ycombinator.com&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i58.6536j0j4&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.&biw=1276&bih=682&dpr=2&ech=1&psi=_XFPVo6-DpSJuAS7mKaAAw.1448047102290.3&ei=_XFPVo6-DpSJuAS7mKaAAw&emsg=NCSR&noj=1 http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sourceid=chrome...
- sdegutis 11y agoGreat pro tip. Thanks!
- timdorr 11y agoLooks like the actual domain is going to be http://themacro.com/ http://themacro.com/
- ericd 11y agoMmmm so fast. The most important feature of a good site, outside of good content, IMO. Nice work.
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- david_mitchell 11y agoWould it be possible to have the macro available using the HN ui and accessible from a link in the orange nav bar? (Don't read this as a criticism of your design; I just think it would be more convenient).
- kepano 11y agoNew Caledonia? Obviously Kevin is involved :)
- dandare 11y agoShowethough: Since supporting Nonprofits and Research @ycombinator is becoming the real life Plus Ultra society (#Tomorrowland).
- raspasov 11y agoDoes the logo have anything to do with Lisp macros? : )
- livingparadox 11y agoYep http://themacro.com/about/#r1 http://themacro.com/about/#r1 See Note1 at the bottom
- jdoliner 11y agoDid pg have any influence on the name? I know that guy likes his macros. Edit: Nvm, it says in a footnote that that is indeed an influence. I'm glad it is.
- loyalelectron 11y agoYep! It was a really fun moment when I first told PG the name.
- refrigerator 11y agoCool idea. Little niggle though - the body font for articles etc. is a bit illegible. I think removing "webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased" and letting it default to "subpixel-antialiased" on the paragraph text makes it a lot better: http://imgur.com/sVPPPwK http://imgur.com/sVPPPwK (before/after comparison).
- ooshma 11y agoOoshma here. Loving the new website. Was a crazy experience to open up with Colleen on the inaugural Q&A. Thanks Colleen for an incredible interview, and congrats Colleen, Kevin, and YC on a successful launch!
- seancoleman 11y agoI noticed a typo in one of the articles. Any thought to open-sourcing the Middleman repo so individuals can submit pull requests for fixes such as this?