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Ask PG: How could this article not be of interest to HN and hackers?
This link was submitted yesterday (I found this out when I tried to submit the same link today) and much to my surprise there are 12 others who submitted, but no comments most likely because it never made it to the front page or was merely submitted at the wrong time.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5619630
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/technology/how-big-data-is-playing-recruiter-for-specialized-workers.html?ref=business&_r=0
This makes me wonder how many other things aren't making it to HN and about the lack of transparency as far as how items get to the front page which clearly involves both votes, comments as well as a manual "approval" by admins.
- tokenadult 14y agoTiming is everything. This is why I look at the new page almost every time after I visit the main page of HN. But even at that, I miss a lot of submissions of good articles (which I often detect when I attempt to submit the same article later). That's just what happens when a site emphasizes "news," which means it emphasizes time stamps on submissions, but upvotes for articles occur by happenstance, as users go looking for articles. No one has time to read even all the good stuff here, much less every new submission exhaustively.
- larrys 14y agoI guess part of what I am saying is that if there is a manual process involved in this (in addition to votes which might depend on time of day (which in itself varies depending on where you are located)) does it then make sense for someone who has the ability to put things on the 1st or 2nd page to review things that are posted at odd times? Or better yet, why not take stories posted "x" hours ago and place them on either the 1st or 2nd page (sans "hours ago"[1] which makes it seem stale) to see if it gets any attention? Add: Similar to what is done with newly posted comments they spend some time at the top they don't go to the bottom. [1] Less likely to read or comment on something that says "19 hours ago" and has 2 comments and is on the 2nd page for example. Why not bubble some things up randomly or maybe even depending on who submitted or by greping for certain keywords or?
- YuriNiyazov 14y agosaturday is usually really slow over here.
- t0 14y agoThere is no manual approval. All links on the frontpage are there based on the amount of votes and time. http://amix.dk/blog/post/19574 http://amix.dk/blog/post/19574
- balsam 14y agoTry submitting your question again later. To add some conspiracy sauce (and draw PG's attention), maybe Gild was a YC reject. Or even in a long term sense, YC's competitor. For what is to stop them from directing their algorithms at entrepreneurs instead of programmers? :)))))))
- balsam 14y agoTry submitting your question again later. To add some conspiracy sauce (and draw PG's attention), maybe Gild was a YC reject. Or even in this batch. Or even in a long term sense, YC's competitor. For what is to stop them from directing their algorithms at entrepreneurs instead of programmers? :)))))))
- openmosix 14y ago(Cofounder of Gild here) - today we made the cover of the of the NYT paper edition with the same article: https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/399956_10101510379239725_2098054618_n.jpg https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/399956_101015103...