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I wish I could vote for 1 and 2, like "yes, cs/hacker stuff that's intellectually stimulating." news.ycombinator.com is less interesting to me now than when it

I wish I could vote for 1 and 2, like "yes, cs/hacker stuff that's intellectually stimulating." news.ycombinator.com is less interesting to me now than when it was known as Startup News. In the year that it's been called "Hacker News" the posts have been far more general than I'd like. If I wanted that I'd spend time at Reddit.

rokhayakebe 18y ago
news.ycombinator.com is less interesting to me now than when it was known as Startup News aka Evolution. EDIT: And for every single person who find HN less interesting, there are 100 new users who love what you have helped built. Be happy.
- swombat 18y ago
  Hardly. Not to sound rude or anything, but I don't give a crap about the other 100 users. I care about what news I read. Ultimately this is pg's site and he can do whatever the heck he wants with it. Whenever I state my dislike of a specific article, I'm not making some grand statement about what YCNews should be to fulfill the purpose of the universe, only about what I personally would prefer to see (or not) on this site.
  - shiranaihito 18y ago
    > Not to sound rude or anything, but I don't give a crap about the other 100 users. I care about what news I read. Fair enough. In this case, I'm more concerned about how realistic the alleged 1:100 ratio of unhappy/happy users is.
  - rokhayakebe 18y ago
    Sure and HN revolves around username swombat. I do like your energy but you are wasting it for the wrong purpose. HN will go where the majority drives it. And nobody said anything about PG owning it or his authority over it. And even He said that sometimes he is surprised to see some post make it to the top, but overall he was satisfied with the content.
    - swombat 18y ago
      HN will go where the majority drives it. I hope not... I believe, perhaps foolishly, that pg will take measures to ensure that this doesn't happen.
iamelgringo 18y ago
I'm actually finding more hackerish stuff on Reddit than here now that Reddit is so customizable. The re-write really helped people to adjust the signal to noise ratio on Reddit. I just don't think that too many people have tried it out, yet. My current sub-reddits: * Worldnews * Programming * Business * Geek * Python * Scifi * Cogsci * Politics * Funny * Science * Technology * Linux * Lolcats * Energy * Math * Ruby * Haskell It gives me a pretty decent mix of Hackerish news with some fun stuff and politics mixed in as well. The startup news and quality of discussion on this site is still far superior to Reddit, however.
- lbrandy 18y ago
  * Lolcats Aren't you supposed to keep that a secret?

rokhayakebe 18y ago

news.ycombinator.com is less interesting to me now than when it was known as Startup News aka Evolution. EDIT: And for every single person who find HN less interesting, there are 100 new users who love what you have helped built. Be happy.

swombat 18y ago
Hardly. Not to sound rude or anything, but I don't give a crap about the other 100 users. I care about what news I read. Ultimately this is pg's site and he can do whatever the heck he wants with it. Whenever I state my dislike of a specific article, I'm not making some grand statement about what YCNews should be to fulfill the purpose of the universe, only about what I personally would prefer to see (or not) on this site.
- shiranaihito 18y ago
  > Not to sound rude or anything, but I don't give a crap about the other 100 users. I care about what news I read. Fair enough. In this case, I'm more concerned about how realistic the alleged 1:100 ratio of unhappy/happy users is.
- rokhayakebe 18y ago
  Sure and HN revolves around username swombat. I do like your energy but you are wasting it for the wrong purpose. HN will go where the majority drives it. And nobody said anything about PG owning it or his authority over it. And even He said that sometimes he is surprised to see some post make it to the top, but overall he was satisfied with the content.
  - swombat 18y ago
    HN will go where the majority drives it. I hope not... I believe, perhaps foolishly, that pg will take measures to ensure that this doesn't happen.

iamelgringo 18y ago

I'm actually finding more hackerish stuff on Reddit than here now that Reddit is so customizable. The re-write really helped people to adjust the signal to noise ratio on Reddit. I just don't think that too many people have tried it out, yet. My current sub-reddits: * Worldnews * Programming * Business * Geek * Python * Scifi * Cogsci * Politics * Funny * Science * Technology * Linux * Lolcats * Energy * Math * Ruby * Haskell It gives me a pretty decent mix of Hackerish news with some fun stuff and politics mixed in as well. The startup news and quality of discussion on this site is still far superior to Reddit, however.

lbrandy 18y ago
* Lolcats Aren't you supposed to keep that a secret?