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Ask YC: Innocuous news?
Did HN get hacked? Screenshot here: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/10731/Snapshot%202009-04-23%2016-45-32.png
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- mattyb 17y agoNo. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=575487 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=575487
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- pg 17y agoNo, I just changed the name for a bit. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=575487 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=575487
- cubicle67 17y agoCould we have it back again? I quite like it. Appeals to my somewhat odd taste.
- pg 17y agoDon't worry, it will only last for the current server process. I just changed the name in the repl.
- jgrahamc 17y agoPerhaps I could have that as an entry possible in my settings. With sufficient karma you get to rename the site.
- vaksel 17y agosubmit that here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363
- tokenadult 17y agoDone. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=576066 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=576066
- tptacek 17y agoCan you do me a favor and change the word "News" to "Important Work Site".
- edw519 17y agoWhy stop there? How about "User Acceptance Testing - Phase III Results". I won't have to alt-tab so much. Hell, maybe pg can make the whole site look like an IDE.
- joshwa 17y agoc.f. http://spreadtweets.elliottkember.com/ http://spreadtweets.elliottkember.com/
- Xichekolas 17y agoAdded title rename to my GM script: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039
- frossie 17y agoGiven all the complaints about the increasing popularity of the site, I was more expecting "Boring News, Nothing Funny Here, Go Back to Tech Crunch" or something.
- far33d 17y agoMaybe higher karma users could change the title dynamically like they can change the top bar color?
- asimjalis 17y agoWhy not call it Make Something People Want News. It might focus the mind of the posters and reduce off-topic posts. Also "Innocuous News" has the feel of an inside joke; it might lead to a recurring Ask-HN thread about the name.
- pedalpete 17y agoI rather liked the strange looks I got from reading Hacker News, but at least I learned a new word today Innocuous - 1. not harmful or injurious; harmless: an innocuous home remedy. 2. not likely to irritate or offend; inoffensive; an innocuous remark. 3. not interesting, stimulating, or significant; pallid; insipid: an innocuous novel.
- Ardit20 17y agoThe word sounds much more interesting than what it actually means though. I like it :)
- javanix 17y agoYou really hadn't heard it before today?
- icey 17y agoNot everyone here is a native English speaker.
- JabavuAdams 17y agoI read a lot, but I have a habit of glossing over words for which I have a vague sense, but not a precise definition. For a while, whenever I'd read something, I'd just quickly jot down any word for which I couldn't come up with a good definition. Later, I'd look them up. It works, and it's saved me some embarrassment. Schadenfreude didn't mean what I thought it meant.
- eru 17y agoWhat did you think it meant? (Just curious - I am a native German speaker.)
- JabavuAdams 17y agoBittersweet joy, rather than joy in someone else's misfortune.
- okeumeni 17y agoInnocuous News; Even creepier than Hacker news : )
- minalecs 17y agoagree theres some unusually shady about something claiming to be innocuous
- pcrawfor 17y agoawesome
- maclifer 17y agoWonderful! Saves the creepy looks from those who keep an eye on the office... now just bewildered looks.
- LotusMegami 17y agoI suggest "l33t |-|@xx0r n3\/\/5"
- mattlanger 17y agoIn our office you get funny looks if you don't read Hacker News.
- stewiecat 17y agoI dream of such places, thanks for letting my know that, unlike unicorns, they exist.
- hwijaya 17y agoActually, i like it as Hacker News. I'm just so used to say it as "Hacker News" to explain things to my team. Can't imagine having to pronounce "Innocuous News".
- dfranke 17y agoWhen I run into ignorance about the hacker/cracker distinction and don't feel like going into the whole schpiel, I find that the phrase "relax; I work for the good guys" is sufficient to calm people down.
- csomar 17y agoI like the name "hacker" why change it for all of us, the one who habe problems with it use a userscript
- AlleyRow 17y agoI like Innocuous, but you could always give "hacker" a weird web 2.0 spelling to solve the problem.
- whughes 17y agoThat would be a step in the wrong direction, in my opinion. Pseudo-leetspeek hacker news? It's even sketchier.
- vlad 17y agoAllow us to customize the title, just like we can customize the title bar background.
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