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No disrespect to the author, but how do projects like this trend on HN? It has 5 commits all from the same day last summer. There's very little activity or eng
by misterbishop 3y ago
No disrespect to the author, but how do projects like this trend on HN? It has 5 commits all from the same day last summer. There's very little activity or engagement with the project to date. Something like this happens almost every week.
- Blahah 3y agoSomeone who isn't the author stumbles across it, thinks maybe HN will appreciate it, and is correct.
- ChrisArchitect 3y agoexcept OP didn't just stumble, they submitted it a few months ago (with little interest)
- ChrisArchitect 3y agoMaybe OP should comment why they submitted it/what they find notable about it
- homarp 3y agobecause I was writing some golang code to play with a Novation Launchpad Mk1 (https://github.com/FMMT666/launchpad.py https://github.com/FMMT666/launchpad.py was very useful) and I was searching what kind of "rhythm machine" i could interface with and I found it interesting back then because a) it's text based b) it's in golang
- homarp 3y ago> why submit it the reason I post to HN is twofolds a) it might interest other people b) other people might post similar projects and I will learn about these projects. (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37313652 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37313652 )
- nullc 3y agoHN sometimes invites people to resubmit submissions that got little attention.
- ChrisArchitect 3y agoyeah, the instant upvotes are a bit weird. And the increase in dupes generally
- homarp 3y agoit's an "Invitation to repost"!
- pfarrell 3y agoA friend of mine had some content reach the front page maybe 6 months ago. I don't know this for 100%, but I think for cool projects that dang thinks are of interest to the community, he will post them to the front page manually some time after the original post date when (speculation here) the front page needs some interesting content. When something like this happened to him, my friend's post date got reset, but the votes and comments it may have received while it was waiting remained. This might explain the instant votes mentioned. Nice little project, I'm glad to have seen it. Music generation stuff is always of interest to me. edit: Saw this on another thread. Seems to line up with what I was talking about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
- jjulius 3y ago>And the increase in dupes generally. Says someone frequently posting dupes[0][1], and even their own dupes[2][3]. [0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37296548 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37296548 [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37078576 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37078576 [2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37254136 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37254136 [3]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37254147 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37254147
- ChrisArchitect 3y agoThose are mostly filling in unposted articles to stop new threads starting up and instead direct to where the discussion is already happening. Because the dupes are out of control sometimes
- notRobot 3y agoA project does not have to be active to be worthy of a post on HN, just cool.
- tomcam 3y agoHow many commits over what period do you suggest before a project hits HN?