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How does this belong on HN frontpage? This is not just trivial, as another commenter 6 hours ago (!) posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39262873 https
by firebaze 3y ago
How does this belong on HN frontpage? This is not just trivial, as another commenter 6 hours ago (!) posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39262873 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39262873
It's not hacker, it's not news, it's not innovative, it's simply boring, and would be cool if a 10 year old did this. Sorry for this rant, but I'm reading on and off HN over ~10 years and contributing under various user names, and I read comments like mine over and over again, and each time agreeing more.
Maybe everyone who definitely will downvote my post should read the first guideline "What to submit":
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.
A random() over the time HN exists, with a link to the generated date, which doesn't even handle back correctly is not something good hackers find interesting.
On the other hand, there are still lots of on-topic, curiosity inducing topics around here. Just getting scarcer every year. Oh my. Good night :)
- ToValueFunfetti 3y agoWhat is interesting here is not the effort that went into the thing (although I am now planning a rewrite in Rust ;), but the output. Assuming it is true that HN standards for 'interesting' are falling, as you say, clicking on the link will tend to present you with a more interesting edition. Assuming it's not, it's still fascinating to look into a time capsule like this.