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Hacker News for Australia Launches

18 points by dawilster 15y ago

DistortedRhymes 15y ago
Looks good, congrats!
boyter 15y ago
If I recall correctly this was initially a blog which was going to interview aussie startups, see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3232161 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3232161 It never really went anywhere (and I did try to push for an interview). What sort of guarantee do we have that this is going to have more investment in your time?
- dawilster 15y ago
  Soon after starting the blog I had the realization that I wasn't the best writer and that I wanted to be a coder so I've decided to refocus my time on something I care about more.
asanwal 15y ago
I don't really think of HN today as being for any geography. Sure, it may have a slightly Silicon Valley-centric feel but SV also is the epicenter for HN type activity and YC is based there so perhaps only natural. Genuine question - What does the "for Australia" achieve that HN today doesn't?
- toast76 15y ago
  I think in terms of "news" I don't think it achieves anything unless the news is inherently local focused. i.e. our own raising of $500k wasn't huge news in the US, but it was a big deal here in Aus. A good example is the current top topic "co-working space opens in Marrickville"...certainly wouldn't be of interested to anyone outside of NSW. In my mind, anything that raises the profile of local events/news is a good thing. I think I'd have preferred to see an actual localised version of HN which rates "local" content higher than US content (perhaps).
  - yagibear 15y ago
    Even more general: Some way of tagging HN articles to identify their subject (e.g. geography, programming language, etc) and then allowing readers to express their interests and so rank articles according to personal interests rather than just voting by the masses.
pan69 15y ago
Being an Australian developer/business owner, I subscribe.
pan69 15y ago
Why are the feeds in your RSS feed pointing your website and not the articles? This is severely irritating. Unsubscribing...

18 points by dawilster 15y ago

Looks good, congrats!

If I recall correctly this was initially a blog which was going to interview aussie startups, see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3232161 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3232161 It never really went anywhere (and I did try to push for an interview). What sort of guarantee do we have that this is going to have more investment in your time?

dawilster 15y ago
Soon after starting the blog I had the realization that I wasn't the best writer and that I wanted to be a coder so I've decided to refocus my time on something I care about more.

asanwal 15y ago

I don't really think of HN today as being for any geography. Sure, it may have a slightly Silicon Valley-centric feel but SV also is the epicenter for HN type activity and YC is based there so perhaps only natural. Genuine question - What does the "for Australia" achieve that HN today doesn't?

toast76 15y ago
I think in terms of "news" I don't think it achieves anything unless the news is inherently local focused. i.e. our own raising of $500k wasn't huge news in the US, but it was a big deal here in Aus. A good example is the current top topic "co-working space opens in Marrickville"...certainly wouldn't be of interested to anyone outside of NSW. In my mind, anything that raises the profile of local events/news is a good thing. I think I'd have preferred to see an actual localised version of HN which rates "local" content higher than US content (perhaps).
- yagibear 15y ago
  Even more general: Some way of tagging HN articles to identify their subject (e.g. geography, programming language, etc) and then allowing readers to express their interests and so rank articles according to personal interests rather than just voting by the masses.

pan69 15y ago

Being an Australian developer/business owner, I subscribe.

pan69 15y ago

Why are the feeds in your RSS feed pointing your website and not the articles? This is severely irritating. Unsubscribing...