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Why is HN suddenly full of latimes/new yorker/nytime/bbc/gizmodo/etc articles? I had an internal bet that i'd find an iflscience.com post before the end of the

Why is HN suddenly full of latimes/new yorker/nytime/bbc/gizmodo/etc articles? I had an internal bet that i'd find an iflscience.com post before the end of the week.

_Parfait_ 3y ago
Reddit's down my man. Hopefully it doesn't trigger Hackernews' eternal September.
Solvency 3y ago
Have you noticed the downward trend in topics and discussions in the last 2 weeks? And that nearly every day another topic is about Reddit/spez? There's your answer.
- the_only_law 3y ago
  It’s not like this is particularly new, just recently you had people complaining about the swath of AI posts, cryptocurrency before that and other shit in the past.
acheron 3y ago
I don't think this is a particularly new thing. It randomly comes and goes. Maybe there's a peak now because of the reddit BS but I doubt it will last long.
paulcole 3y ago
Yeah I agree. It's frustrating to see HN become less of a tech echo chamber. Can't we just get back to blog posts about how technical debt is bad and why managers with MBAs are clueless?
- boredumb 3y ago
  This is a forum for a VC tech-incubator.
  - quickthrowman 3y ago
    The very first paragraph of the guidelines, written by someone that works for said VC tech incubator: 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. The article generated 90 posts of discussion, I would say plenty of users found it interesting, even if you did not.
- robg 3y ago
  I’ve been on HN since 2007. It has always been general interest.
robg 3y ago
*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.* https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
dang 3y ago
Those sorts of articles have always appeared here. Maybe there's been a random up-fluctuation - I have no idea, but it's expected in any random sequence. If so, it will pass soon enough. Edit: I see acheron already said this
- acheron 3y ago
  I mean, I get it, I probably complained in the past about a bunch of Guardian articles on the front page. But eventually I realized that mostly it's just the effect where you notice things that bug you and then forget about them when they're not there. A bunch of Guardian articles show up, I get annoyed, then some amount of time goes by while I don't think about it, and then randomly some more appear and I remember again.
  - dang 3y ago
    Omg you have hit on my personal pet point that no one ever notices! https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20notice%20dislike&sort=byDate&type=story&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Why is HN suddenly full of latimes/new yorker/nytime/bbc/gizmodo/etc articles? I had an internal bet that i'd find an iflscience.com post before the end of the week.

_Parfait_ 3y ago

Reddit's down my man. Hopefully it doesn't trigger Hackernews' eternal September.

Solvency 3y ago

Have you noticed the downward trend in topics and discussions in the last 2 weeks? And that nearly every day another topic is about Reddit/spez? There's your answer.

the_only_law 3y ago
It’s not like this is particularly new, just recently you had people complaining about the swath of AI posts, cryptocurrency before that and other shit in the past.

acheron 3y ago

I don't think this is a particularly new thing. It randomly comes and goes. Maybe there's a peak now because of the reddit BS but I doubt it will last long.

paulcole 3y ago

Yeah I agree. It's frustrating to see HN become less of a tech echo chamber. Can't we just get back to blog posts about how technical debt is bad and why managers with MBAs are clueless?

boredumb 3y ago
This is a forum for a VC tech-incubator.
- quickthrowman 3y ago
  The very first paragraph of the guidelines, written by someone that works for said VC tech incubator: 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. The article generated 90 posts of discussion, I would say plenty of users found it interesting, even if you did not.
robg 3y ago
I’ve been on HN since 2007. It has always been general interest.

robg 3y ago

*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.* https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

dang 3y ago

Those sorts of articles have always appeared here. Maybe there's been a random up-fluctuation - I have no idea, but it's expected in any random sequence. If so, it will pass soon enough. Edit: I see acheron already said this

acheron 3y ago
I mean, I get it, I probably complained in the past about a bunch of Guardian articles on the front page. But eventually I realized that mostly it's just the effect where you notice things that bug you and then forget about them when they're not there. A bunch of Guardian articles show up, I get annoyed, then some amount of time goes by while I don't think about it, and then randomly some more appear and I remember again.
- dang 3y ago
  Omg you have hit on my personal pet point that no one ever notices! https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20notice%20dislike&sort=byDate&type=story&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...