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> This name confusion seems intentional Do you have proof, or do you just happen to feel this way without actually knowing any background story? If you make su
by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
> This name confusion seems intentional
Do you have proof, or do you just happen to feel this way without actually knowing any background story? If you make such an accusation you should state your reasons, preferably observable facts. Both "hacker" and "news" are generic terms after all.
In addition, even if they did mimic the name, I would not see a problem. It's very descriptive, unlike a completely made-up word that someone spent a lot of effort on to establish as a brand.
- qha 8y ago"Washington" and "Post" are also generic terms.
- ThrowMeDown01 8y agoA concrete location is something very specific, and the number of newspapers per town is very small.
- akvadrako 8y agoThere are multiple places called Washington and post can mean "mail delivery" or "sign post" or "work assignments".
- ThrowMeDown01 8y agoYou are grasping for straws in a truly disgusting but not even entertaining way.
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- sokoloff 8y agoThis site, with the name "Hacker News", was already popular and predates the other site by several years. If I launched a new site called "TheFacebook.com" tomorrow, what proof would you need that I was, at a minimum, knowingly causing confusion?
- O1111OOO 8y ago> This site, with the name "Hacker News", was already popular You mean, with the name "ycombinator", right? I remember accessing this site a few times in the (distant) past and was a little confused as to what it was and what it was "selling" (based on the actual frontpage). I'd check out https://ycombinator.com/ https://ycombinator.com/ and assumed the news subdomain was a forum or some '1337' thing. I say this as a slashdotter, digger, redditor (and others) - all of whom have and always had brand naming. I'd say that over the last couple of years, HN has crossed a bridge into the mass market. Before then... it was niche.
- qha 8y agoThe original name and domain of Facebook is TheFacebook.com :P
- sokoloff 8y agoI know; that's part of the point. ;)
- ninguem2 8y agoI expect Zuckerberg owns the domain name and would land on you with an army of lawyers.
- snazz 8y agoAnd it redirects there today, so you’d have to buy it back from Facebook for an exorbitant sum of money to do anything with it, then promptly get sued.
- ThrowMeDown01 8y agoThe term "Facebook" is not nearly as generic as "hackernews".
- justinsaccount 8y agoReally? It's literally a generic term https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_book
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