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I assumed that the target market for HN is people in startups and people about to start startups. That said, if the target market is just 'hackers', just modif
by kwis 16y ago
I assumed that the target market for HN is people in startups and people about to start startups.
That said, if the target market is just 'hackers', just modify my question to refer to 'hackers' rather than 'founders'.
- pg 16y agoHN is for hackers, not startup founders. There just ends up being a disproportionate amount of stuff about startups, because YC is in the startup business.
- endlessvoid94 16y agoClearly not everybody reads the site guidelines. Perhaps enforcing that periodically would help.
- ssclafani 16y agoAnd therein lies the problem. As HN and Y Combinator itself have grown, as well as the general startup climate, HN has become increasingly startup focused to the point where many would describe it as "for startup founders" rather than "for hackers". And there are a lot of new users who like it that way (or assume it's supposed to be that way). But then you have the old guard like tptacek who would like nothing more than to see HN filled with only hard tech/science posts. That's a gap that isn't going to be filled with any algorithmic tweak or new comment layout.
- tptacek 16y agoI would strongly prefer an HN that only had startup posts. I think this part of the thread is going off the rails, though. The problem is, "how do you improve comment quality on HN". We can probably avoid debating the premise of the question, and just focus on the (plentiful) ideas themselves.
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