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Seriously, what is this doing on Hacker News? I'm sure there's a subreddit for this.

Kurtz79 14y ago
I found it very interesting, as it talks about how journalism has changed in the age of the internet. A good hacker should have a good grasp of how the world works, and how it changes over time.
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- Spiritus 14y ago
  How does this help me in any way whatsoever at being a better hacker? Except don't become a freelance journalist 2013, like that ever crossed my mind. Might as well just rename the site to Random News and post stuff from every field there is.
  - panzagl 14y ago
    You're right, hackers don't produce intellectual property, and they never have issues with people not valuing it. If you think being able to sling code or design a webpage makes you immune from this trend, then maybe you don't have enough imagination to get the most out of this site.
  - Kurtz79 14y ago
    If an article is considered uninteresting by the community quickly falls out from the front page. The fact that this one is on top and has received a huge amount of comments already, makes me think that a good part of the people frequenting this site found it interesting and relevant.
  - nollidge 14y ago
    You are welcome to try out any of the other fine news establishments this great wide Internet has to offer.
  - DanBC 14y ago
    Please have another look at the various guidelines for HN. This post invites discussion on a number of fronts. i) It demonstrates one person's work and information flow through a day. Good hackers will spot opportunities to make that a bit easier. ii) We can discuss the problems of finding good longform journalism. Good hackers will spot opportunities around collation of great articles, or filtering news for people. iii) There are problems around paying people to create decent journalism. There are opportunities around this. The current ad-driven model sucks, with it's reliance on pageviews and linkbait and controversialist nonsense.
- marpalmin 14y ago
  hahaha which is the complete skillset of the good hacker?
EliRivers 14y ago
Producers of low quality articles on demand have been called hacks for a bit over 200 years, and some of them write the news. Hacker News seems appropriate :)
gnosis 14y ago
From HN's Guidelines[1]: "Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did." [1] - http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
nollidge 14y ago
Please don't do this. A) it is futile: people upvote what they upvote. No amount of whining will affect that. B) If something gets upvotes and comments, then obviously it's of interest to enough people. If you have genuine confusion as to why people upvoted, perhaps a question asked in good faith along those lines would be the proper way to find out.

I found it very interesting, as it talks about how journalism has changed in the age of the internet. A good hacker should have a good grasp of how the world works, and how it changes over time.

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Spiritus 14y ago
How does this help me in any way whatsoever at being a better hacker? Except don't become a freelance journalist 2013, like that ever crossed my mind. Might as well just rename the site to Random News and post stuff from every field there is.
- panzagl 14y ago
  You're right, hackers don't produce intellectual property, and they never have issues with people not valuing it. If you think being able to sling code or design a webpage makes you immune from this trend, then maybe you don't have enough imagination to get the most out of this site.
- Kurtz79 14y ago
  If an article is considered uninteresting by the community quickly falls out from the front page. The fact that this one is on top and has received a huge amount of comments already, makes me think that a good part of the people frequenting this site found it interesting and relevant.
- nollidge 14y ago
  You are welcome to try out any of the other fine news establishments this great wide Internet has to offer.
- DanBC 14y ago
  Please have another look at the various guidelines for HN. This post invites discussion on a number of fronts. i) It demonstrates one person's work and information flow through a day. Good hackers will spot opportunities to make that a bit easier. ii) We can discuss the problems of finding good longform journalism. Good hackers will spot opportunities around collation of great articles, or filtering news for people. iii) There are problems around paying people to create decent journalism. There are opportunities around this. The current ad-driven model sucks, with it's reliance on pageviews and linkbait and controversialist nonsense.
marpalmin 14y ago
hahaha which is the complete skillset of the good hacker?

EliRivers 14y ago

Producers of low quality articles on demand have been called hacks for a bit over 200 years, and some of them write the news. Hacker News seems appropriate :)

gnosis 14y ago

From HN's Guidelines[1]: "Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did." [1] - http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

nollidge 14y ago

Please don't do this. A) it is futile: people upvote what they upvote. No amount of whining will affect that. B) If something gets upvotes and comments, then obviously it's of interest to enough people. If you have genuine confusion as to why people upvoted, perhaps a question asked in good faith along those lines would be the proper way to find out.