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Didn't see it that time. Found it interesting this time. Hacker News Guidelines What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. Th
by kbutler 9y ago
Didn't see it that time. Found it interesting this time.
Hacker News Guidelines What to Submit
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That 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.
- dang 9y agoWe treat stories as dupes if they've had significant attention in the last year or so. If not, reposts are ok. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. Some such practice follows from the core value of the site, because intellectual curiosity withers under repetition. On the internet, most attention tends to converge, power-law style, on the same small number of hot topics. On HN we actively try to break that by welcoming the long tail. Because there are so few slots on the front page we tend to be diligent about marking dupes, even though they're often excellent stories that much of the community hasn't seen. We don't, though, mark a story as a dupe if it was posted before but didn't get much attention. It's important to let good stories have multiple cracks at the bat, in order to mitigate the randomness of what gets noticed here. And there you have pretty much the whole of our thinking about dupes.