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No, of course not. And, of course, Hacker News is a really bad name for a community of software entrepreneurs, for a number of reasons. First, it encourages p
by jasonkester 10y ago
No, of course not.
And, of course, Hacker News is a really bad name for a community of software entrepreneurs, for a number of reasons.
First, it encourages people who understand the correct meaning of the term to associate this place with the art of computer programming, leading them to submit articles about Haskell as though they belonged here. There are a lot more people who care about that sort of thing than people starting software businesses (startup or otherwise), so we get a bit lost in the noise.
The big one, though, is that "Hacker" doesn't mean what computer folk know it to mean. To anybody but us (meaning roughly 100% of people), it means "Criminal Who Breaks In To Your Computer". That's what we associate ourselves with by naming this site the way we do.
I'd much rather go back to being "Startup News". At least then our only concern would be convincing people to stop posting general tech news here.
- bbcbasic 10y agoWow that's news to me I thought this site was for tech news and Haskell was welcome
- Lordarminius 10y ago> Wow that's news to me I thought this site was for tech news and Haskell was welcome :)
- chc 10y agoI think he's being a little bit reductive, probably because there's a dearth of more interesting startup-relevant topics here these days.
- crazypyro 10y agoSometimes articles about programming languages do belong here. They have a large audience here and have since I've been around. This isn't "Startup News" and doesn't purport to be. In fact, the guidelines for hacker news specifically state that "[On Topic]...includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
- icebraining 10y agoWhat makes you think stories about Haskell don't belong here, though? I mean, just look at the last stories submitted by pg (I've removed the YC/HN-specific links): This is the driest year in California history How Airbnb used predictive pricing to improve user experience Wallpaper group Source of the recent outagelet Moths and sloths: Slow food movement Migration of Monarch Butterflies Shrinks Again Under Inhospitable Conditions From Erratic to Effective: The Story Behind the Zapier Blog in 2013 Boardinghouses: where the city was born A Start-Up Moves Teachers Past Data Entry Why Are Americans Staying Put? Map: Income Taxes by US County Silicon Valley 40 under 40: Garry Tan JPMorgan applies for patent on bitcoin-like currency Medieval kids’ doodles on birch bark Rockstar: We celebrate the value and power of innovation Nut consumption reduces risk of death Economic history: What can we learn from the Depression? Stars of Tech World Lend Their Force to George Lucas Startups Like Berlin Because Visa Rules Are Nothing Like the U.S. Commuting's Hidden Cost Chemical 'clock' tracks ageing more precisely than ever before Stephen King’s Family Business Is an Haskell story really less relevant that all of these?
- TurboHaskal 10y agoSpotted the heretic who didn't read hackers and painters. I very much prefer h4x0r though.