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I hope the experiment works! It's likely you have thought of this and decided against, but curious to hear your reasoning. Why would this this not work similar

by yaseer 5y ago

I hope the experiment works! It's likely you have thought of this and decided against, but curious to hear your reasoning. Why would this this not work similar to the 'Show' section? i.e. a dedicated page for YC startups. Interesting posts naturally float to the front page from 'Show', past a certain threshold. Potentially this could act as the filter to decide if a full 'Launch HN' (complete with your editing expertise!) Would be worthwhile.

dang 5y ago
It's also an option, but HN follows a power law (doesn't everything?) and the front page sits at the top of the power-law pole. Also, the current idea is also an experiment in solving the editing problem, which I described above and at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27877627 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27877627, which a separate section of top-level posts would not do.
- yaseer 5y ago
  The Startup section could hypothetically be limited to the shorter blurbs you mentioned. Also, deciding what should make a full 'Show HN' is extra work for yourself. Solving that by measuring real interest is presumably the only way this scales. Nevertheless, we all really appreciate you 'doing something that doesn't scale' in editing posts to this point, it's been quite the burden the last 2 batches!