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The misnaming works well though. The hacker part covers all the technical posts, and the fact that it's on the YC domain covers all the startup posts. If it w
by smackfu 16y ago
The misnaming works well though. The hacker part covers all the technical posts, and the fact that it's on the YC domain covers all the startup posts.
If it was called startupnews, everyone would complain about the technical posts.
- aquateen 16y agoIt used to be called Startup News, not much has changed w/ regard to submissions.
- gloob 16y agoIf accuracy was the highest priority when choosing the site's name, it would be called "Web Pages Voted on by a Reasonably Polite Community with a Curious Taste for Speculation About What Might Eventually Become News, Rather Than News Itself".
- jhpriestley 16y agoWhat technical posts?
- smackfu 16y agoHeh. This is startup news? "The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders "
- burgerbrain 16y agoNo, though there is certainly a notable lack of hacker discussion on that article. "Hacker" news seems to not even be the second most popular topic of discussion here. Startup crap and politics shit both do a great job of drowning it out. Then you have the always creepy "article about steve jobs' personal life, which has absolutely nothing to do with computing or even his business"...