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Yes, but do hackers find this interesting, or are non-hackers voting this to the top? There was a time when you didn't see stuff like this on HN.
by rsheridan6 14y ago
Yes, but do hackers find this interesting, or are non-hackers voting this to the top? There was a time when you didn't see stuff like this on HN.
- thesis 14y agoWhile I agree the OP doesn't seem like a great fit for HN... is there a clear and cut definition of "hackers" that should apply to who can post here?
- rsheridan6 14y agoYou can play word games looking for precise definitions of anything. I don't have a clear-cut definition of the word "hacker," but in most places it's clear who is or isn't (I'm definitely not at this point in my life, though I might have been five years ago when I registered here). Yeah, there are some edge cases - maybe someone thinks he's a hacker because he runs Gentoo and knows a little shell scripting but people who contribute substantially to open source projects think he's not - but the vast majority of people clearly are or are not hackers. Reddit started out like Hacker News, because it was initially best known for being funded/mentored by Paul Graham, so people who were interested in him went there. It mutated into the Reddit we know today - which is why pg felt the need to fork a new community a year or two into reddit's evolution. HN would probably do the same thing given a laissez faire attitude. It's up to HN to decide whether that's a good thing or a bad thing.
- primitur 14y agoIt is very interesting because it is a story about the longevity of hardware and software and how, in the end, the decision whether a platform is useful or not is up to the USER and nobody else.