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It seems there is a small but very strong subculture of HackerNews readers who enjoy reading and discussing mathematical things. I would love to have a separate
by j2kun 13y ago
It seems there is a small but very strong subculture of HackerNews readers who enjoy reading and discussing mathematical things. I would love to have a separate feed of those stories (and then after I'm done I could browse the HN front page), and I have often thought about the possibility of writing a program to do that.
DataTau (the HN for data mining) seems to have failed, so I imagine a filter is the way to go rather than make a new website.
- jt2190 13y agoI think one of the challenges of hosting a "sub-HN" is that the hosting costs are hard to justify. This raises the question: How does YC justify hosting costs? My completely-off-the-cuff-assumption-take-this-with-a-huge-grain-of-salt is that YC benefits by having a huge audience to make announcements to, like job postings at YC funded companies, various pg essays, or just investing in overall goodwill from the HN audience. Probably the most likely reason is to increase deal-flow to YCombinator itself, though.
- icebraining 13y agoWhy does it need to have some justification beyond being a fun hobby? HN is hosted on a single server, and it probably uses less than 1TB/month, so it's not that expensive for someone with a Bay Area tech salary, let alone the whole YC.