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More Hacker Less News

7 points by kruhft 15y ago

chronomex 15y ago
Hmmm, interesting. What's the intended focus of this site?
- kruhft 15y ago
  The intended focus is 'More Hacker Less News', which could best be defined as articles about programming, finance and other things that interest me. Currently it's basically a journal of things I find on the internet that I feel like publishing, but by using it also allows all the features of regular HN, such as creating accounts and publishing your own stories. I am finding most of the news sites I read (HN, Slashdot, etc) are not covering real 'Hacker' articles anymore by pandering to the masses. This is just a grassroots site by a hacker for hackers. Most of the articles I post on my site also get posted to HN but hardly get any attention, so HN is really just turning into a more into a news site, which personally, I'm really starting to get enough of.
awolf 15y ago
You stole HN's design? Doesn't seem like the way to start on the right foot.
- kruhft 15y ago
  The site is based on arc.news, which is included in the Arc language distribution that is given away as open source. Yes, it is the same design as hacker news because the sites are both running the same code, but I am planning on improvements as time goes on. And besides, I like the simple design!
kruhft 15y ago
For some reason HN changed my link when I submitted and removed /news from the end. The link I originally submitted was http://kruhft.dyndns.org/discussion http://kruhft.dyndns.org/discussion
- kruhft 15y ago
  And I've since changed it to /discuss.
chmielewski 15y ago
How do you intend to deal with crossposts from HN? Is that sort of behavior frowned upon or do you see it as necessary for Kruhft's health?
- kruhft 15y ago
  I'm not sure how to deal with it. I'm just working on setting the site up and getting into a general posting habit. I've crossposted interesting discussions from HN that I find interesting, and so far I'm the only person that's posting to kruhft, so as the problems come up I'll deal with the issues as they come along. Kruhft is more about the links and the content of the site with hopefully a discussion that goes along with the type of content I'm posting. It's an experiment, but it's quite fun so far.

7 points by kruhft 15y ago

chronomex 15y ago

Hmmm, interesting. What's the intended focus of this site?

kruhft 15y ago
The intended focus is 'More Hacker Less News', which could best be defined as articles about programming, finance and other things that interest me. Currently it's basically a journal of things I find on the internet that I feel like publishing, but by using it also allows all the features of regular HN, such as creating accounts and publishing your own stories. I am finding most of the news sites I read (HN, Slashdot, etc) are not covering real 'Hacker' articles anymore by pandering to the masses. This is just a grassroots site by a hacker for hackers. Most of the articles I post on my site also get posted to HN but hardly get any attention, so HN is really just turning into a more into a news site, which personally, I'm really starting to get enough of.

awolf 15y ago

You stole HN's design? Doesn't seem like the way to start on the right foot.

kruhft 15y ago
The site is based on arc.news, which is included in the Arc language distribution that is given away as open source. Yes, it is the same design as hacker news because the sites are both running the same code, but I am planning on improvements as time goes on. And besides, I like the simple design!

kruhft 15y ago

For some reason HN changed my link when I submitted and removed /news from the end. The link I originally submitted was http://kruhft.dyndns.org/discussion http://kruhft.dyndns.org/discussion

kruhft 15y ago
And I've since changed it to /discuss.

chmielewski 15y ago

How do you intend to deal with crossposts from HN? Is that sort of behavior frowned upon or do you see it as necessary for Kruhft's health?

kruhft 15y ago
I'm not sure how to deal with it. I'm just working on setting the site up and getting into a general posting habit. I've crossposted interesting discussions from HN that I find interesting, and so far I'm the only person that's posting to kruhft, so as the problems come up I'll deal with the issues as they come along. Kruhft is more about the links and the content of the site with hopefully a discussion that goes along with the type of content I'm posting. It's an experiment, but it's quite fun so far.