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See the comments elsewhere in the thread about HN a a whole gradually changing focus from a more education/opinion site to a news site. A rule-of-thumb to dist
by picks_at_nits 12y ago
See the comments elsewhere in the thread about HN a a whole gradually changing focus from a more education/opinion site to a news site.
A rule-of-thumb to distinguish the two is that a news article is the kind of thing you read right away, an educational article is something you deliberately bookmark to read later when you have some time to reflect on its content.
The early issues of HN are full of articles that are as valid today as they were then. You may not have minded waiting for them.
- baby 12y agowell, for _most_ articles I do mind reading them on time because the discussions they create around me will fathom quickly after the trend/buzz has passed. So you do want to be there when discussions happen. Talking about discussion, it happens a lot that I don't even look at the article and just look at the HN comments. I think I'm not the only one who would say HN is mostly HN because it has great comments.