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We like rehashing old news to feel better about ourselves. Put another, less inflammatory way, Hacker News tends very highly towards the ephemeral. I would arg
by debacle 14y ago
We like rehashing old news to feel better about ourselves.
Put another, less inflammatory way, Hacker News tends very highly towards the ephemeral. I would argue certainly more highly than reddit and possibly even more highly than something like 4chan.
This creates a detrimental effect because the discussion around these news stories is more long-lived than HN (the discussion vector) would let us believe.
This creates something I'd call the Hacker News Timeshift - blogspam based on yesterday's news purely on the off chance that the generated blog post will act as a vector for spurring the truncated discussion, thus generating plenty of ancillary or almost coincidental traffic to the blogspam.
Anyone who visits the new stories page once a day will see this effect in action for roughly 50% of the stories that were on the news page yesterday.
- frou_dh 14y agoNice observation. I buy it, but question how often authors have that specific intent in mind vs. unaffiliated submitters and voters creating the narratives with what they can find. Who knows? There's a chance Madonna^WMarco himself might not be targeting the HN masses with his latest post. Regardless, it's finally dawning on me that the never-ending stream of Apple punditry is a fucking bore, including the "high quality" sources in the echo-chamber such as DF and 5by5.
- debacle 14y agoHacker News, in general, is a fucking bore. The nice thing about being random access is that you can be highly selective in both the stories that you read and the discussions you participate in.