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Wasn't this domain imitating the actual Hacker News banned years ago? Plus, I think they violate rules because this is just blog spam. The actual source of th

by ccnafr 8y ago

Wasn't this domain imitating the actual Hacker News banned years ago? Plus, I think they violate rules because this is just blog spam. The actual source of the story is: https://ivan.barreraoro.com.ar/signal-desktop-html-tag-injection-variant-2/ https://ivan.barreraoro.com.ar/signal-desktop-html-tag-injec...

rando444 8y ago
I don't see anything imitating this website.. other than a technology based news feed and a similarly used name. I used to browse a website called "hacker news" back in the late 90s / early 2000s, but I wouldn't go as far as to call News YC a copy of that.
- ccnafr 8y ago
  I was referring to the fact of imitating the HN brand by capitalizing on the domain name so they could scoop up all the traffic and SEO love. That's why the domain was banned to begin with a few years back. There was a whole discussion about it.
  - rando444 8y ago
    The site that I was referring to was literally hackernews.com, and was very popular among the tech crowd from the late 90s onward. (long before YC was conceived) ALmost 20 years ago, I used to rotate between hacker news, fark, and slashdot to get my daily dose of internet. https://web.archive.org/web/*/hackernews.com https://web.archive.org/web/*/hackernews.com One would be perfectly justified in also trying to claim that the name here was stolen from the original. .. but sometimes, just because things share a common name, does not necessarily mean they are related. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc
    - ccnafr 8y ago
      Not that one. That's owned by Space Rogue. I'm talking about the one linked now, owned by some Indians who keep copying articles off other sites. There was a reason this got banned years ago. At one point you could trace articles from The Register and Motherboard paragraph by paragraph to their stories, but with bad grammar and bad sentence structure.

by ccnafr 8y ago

rando444 8y ago

I don't see anything imitating this website.. other than a technology based news feed and a similarly used name. I used to browse a website called "hacker news" back in the late 90s / early 2000s, but I wouldn't go as far as to call News YC a copy of that.

ccnafr 8y ago
I was referring to the fact of imitating the HN brand by capitalizing on the domain name so they could scoop up all the traffic and SEO love. That's why the domain was banned to begin with a few years back. There was a whole discussion about it.
- rando444 8y ago
  The site that I was referring to was literally hackernews.com, and was very popular among the tech crowd from the late 90s onward. (long before YC was conceived) ALmost 20 years ago, I used to rotate between hacker news, fark, and slashdot to get my daily dose of internet. https://web.archive.org/web/*/hackernews.com https://web.archive.org/web/*/hackernews.com One would be perfectly justified in also trying to claim that the name here was stolen from the original. .. but sometimes, just because things share a common name, does not necessarily mean they are related. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc
  - ccnafr 8y ago
    Not that one. That's owned by Space Rogue. I'm talking about the one linked now, owned by some Indians who keep copying articles off other sites. There was a reason this got banned years ago. At one point you could trace articles from The Register and Motherboard paragraph by paragraph to their stories, but with bad grammar and bad sentence structure.