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This still a tech news aggregator? This is something that should be on reddit, not hacker news...?

by lurch00 15y ago

suivix 15y ago
Gaddafi's death was a frontage story here. This isn't really a tech news aggregator anymore, it's an everything place.
dfc 15y ago
Read the FAQ and tell me how a story about art/discovery/paradigm-shifting is OT... tl;dr hn is not a technews aggregator.
- lurch00 15y ago
  http://www.eisp.org/ http://www.eisp.org/ has way more information on the topic than the linked blog. I don't think it's off topic, I just think it's a poor article which has no real substance (hence the reddit comparison). Eh. I guess I'll just stick to HN classic.
  - nickolai 15y ago
    >Eh. I guess I'll just stick to HN classic. it's #2 there now (http://news.ycombinator.com/classic http://news.ycombinator.com/classic)
  - dfc 15y ago
    Is hn:classic how you started reading HN?
- tripzilch 15y ago
  > Read the FAQ and tell me how a story about art/discovery/paradigm-shifting is OT... Art, okay. But how is this paradigm shifting? We already knew they have bodies below surface for at least a couple of decades. And a good deal of the statues are well above ground with their bodies. They're just called "Easter Island Heads" because their heads are often disproportionally large to their bodies. PARADIGM SHIFT! If that's a paradigm shift to you, here, have some more! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions Though, I do notice that "Easter Island Heads are in fact not merely heads" is not among them. Maybe I should edit that, given the popularity of this story among what are supposed to be a community of knowledgeable and intelligent people :) Finally, you say it's a story about "discovery". The posted article doesn't really mention anything about a discovery. The original article kind of does: http://www.eisp.org/3879/ http://www.eisp.org/3879/ Has the same pictures, nearly the same text, maybe it's a bit TL;DR for this crowd given that you even had to summarize your one-sentence post: > tl;dr hn is not a technews aggregator. In which case, congratulations to anybody who read this far.
  - dfc 15y ago
    What is the point of your post? Do you agree/disagree that this is a story for HN? I can't tell.
  - dfc 15y ago
    Wow! I just finished reading though the list of common misconceptions. If you were aware of all of those misconceptions am extremely impressed. That list covers an enormous body of knowledge. To be honest I would not have imagined that anyone would know all of those details, congratulations. Did you really know all of those?
    - tripzilch 15y ago
      I don't know, it's a while back that I read the article. I should check again, I suppose (or hope) the ones I don't know about, at least I know I don't know about? :)
- lurch00 15y ago
  So I read the FAQ and guidelines. As far as I can tell the things you mentioned are not specified. "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." So did a blog post with 3 pictures and a paragraph of text satisfy your intellectual curiosity? What did you actually learn from this single site? Sure, the pictures are purrdy but it's hardly good content. IMO it matches the off-topic, more than the on-topic. "Moai statues have bodies, more pictures at 11!" An intelligent site aggregator without the bullshit fluff is too much to ask for I guess. I'll be over at lamernews.
  - dfc 15y ago
    That picture was not the least bit awe inspiring to you? That someone along time ago moved huge masses of stone and created something like that? Its not just me though, apparently a lot of other people liked it too, and it made it to #2 on hn:classic. Why continue this argument? Even in their hayday the big tech aggregators (/. , kuro5hin, etc) had posts that were not OMG, ROFLScale! I wrote a webserver in Clojure+Assembly that runs on my thermostat!
beilabs 15y ago
It was on reddit a few weeks ago. Personally speaking I read HN every day, at the weekends I don't mind less tech focused stuff....
clemesha 15y ago
Totally agreed. Come to lamernews.com.
- timf 15y ago
  This story is also of interest to the 'classic' HN votes, so it's not like one can argue HN "has changed": http://news.ycombinator.com/classic http://news.ycombinator.com/classic Snippet-stuff that makes you rethink something has always been a part of HN. (That said, I prefer it to be a majority of tech stuff myself and usually only submit tech stuff: http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=timf http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=timf )

This still a tech news aggregator? This is something that should be on reddit, not hacker news...?

by lurch00 15y ago

This still a tech news aggregator? This is something that should be on reddit, not hacker news...?

suivix 15y ago

Gaddafi's death was a frontage story here. This isn't really a tech news aggregator anymore, it's an everything place.

dfc 15y ago

Read the FAQ and tell me how a story about art/discovery/paradigm-shifting is OT... tl;dr hn is not a technews aggregator.

lurch00 15y ago
http://www.eisp.org/ http://www.eisp.org/ has way more information on the topic than the linked blog. I don't think it's off topic, I just think it's a poor article which has no real substance (hence the reddit comparison). Eh. I guess I'll just stick to HN classic.
- nickolai 15y ago
  >Eh. I guess I'll just stick to HN classic. it's #2 there now (http://news.ycombinator.com/classic http://news.ycombinator.com/classic)
- dfc 15y ago
  Is hn:classic how you started reading HN?
tripzilch 15y ago
> Read the FAQ and tell me how a story about art/discovery/paradigm-shifting is OT... Art, okay. But how is this paradigm shifting? We already knew they have bodies below surface for at least a couple of decades. And a good deal of the statues are well above ground with their bodies. They're just called "Easter Island Heads" because their heads are often disproportionally large to their bodies. PARADIGM SHIFT! If that's a paradigm shift to you, here, have some more! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions Though, I do notice that "Easter Island Heads are in fact not merely heads" is not among them. Maybe I should edit that, given the popularity of this story among what are supposed to be a community of knowledgeable and intelligent people :) Finally, you say it's a story about "discovery". The posted article doesn't really mention anything about a discovery. The original article kind of does: http://www.eisp.org/3879/ http://www.eisp.org/3879/ Has the same pictures, nearly the same text, maybe it's a bit TL;DR for this crowd given that you even had to summarize your one-sentence post: > tl;dr hn is not a technews aggregator. In which case, congratulations to anybody who read this far.
- dfc 15y ago
  What is the point of your post? Do you agree/disagree that this is a story for HN? I can't tell.
- dfc 15y ago
  Wow! I just finished reading though the list of common misconceptions. If you were aware of all of those misconceptions am extremely impressed. That list covers an enormous body of knowledge. To be honest I would not have imagined that anyone would know all of those details, congratulations. Did you really know all of those?
  - tripzilch 15y ago
    I don't know, it's a while back that I read the article. I should check again, I suppose (or hope) the ones I don't know about, at least I know I don't know about? :)
lurch00 15y ago
So I read the FAQ and guidelines. As far as I can tell the things you mentioned are not specified. "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." So did a blog post with 3 pictures and a paragraph of text satisfy your intellectual curiosity? What did you actually learn from this single site? Sure, the pictures are purrdy but it's hardly good content. IMO it matches the off-topic, more than the on-topic. "Moai statues have bodies, more pictures at 11!" An intelligent site aggregator without the bullshit fluff is too much to ask for I guess. I'll be over at lamernews.
- dfc 15y ago
  That picture was not the least bit awe inspiring to you? That someone along time ago moved huge masses of stone and created something like that? Its not just me though, apparently a lot of other people liked it too, and it made it to #2 on hn:classic. Why continue this argument? Even in their hayday the big tech aggregators (/. , kuro5hin, etc) had posts that were not OMG, ROFLScale! I wrote a webserver in Clojure+Assembly that runs on my thermostat!

beilabs 15y ago

It was on reddit a few weeks ago. Personally speaking I read HN every day, at the weekends I don't mind less tech focused stuff....

clemesha 15y ago

Totally agreed. Come to lamernews.com.

timf 15y ago
This story is also of interest to the 'classic' HN votes, so it's not like one can argue HN "has changed": http://news.ycombinator.com/classic http://news.ycombinator.com/classic Snippet-stuff that makes you rethink something has always been a part of HN. (That said, I prefer it to be a majority of tech stuff myself and usually only submit tech stuff: http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=timf http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=timf )