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The short answer is that HN is it's own category. You've no doubt seen the several 'HN for x' sites that pop up -- HN itself is a catch-all that in theory bring
by stevewillows 13y ago
The short answer is that HN is it's own category. You've no doubt seen the several 'HN for x' sites that pop up -- HN itself is a catch-all that in theory brings the best of everything in to one feed.
"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
- krapp 13y agoAlthough Hacker News is possibly becoming too large and too complex as a community for a "one channel fits all" model to work. Whenever stories of a certain type become popular (Aaron Swartz, the NSA, etc) they can appear to overwhelm the entire site, when they could overwhelm, say, a board or tag. Of course then, i'm basically describing Reddit...
- stevewillows 13y agoExactly. The major sprees between NSA, SOPA, Bitcoin, etc are a pain and tend to take away from the value of the front page. One nice option would be to have the titles autocategorized so we could omit certain keywords from our own main feeds. But again, this takes away from the simplicity of HN.
- sharemywin 13y agoReddit has lots of categories. I was thinking a few. I'm think there are a few different groups of users of the site an they probably have different tastes.
- collyw 13y agoI find HN has better quality comments than Reddit.