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by pvg 2y ago
For a Show HN, you need to have something other people can try right now - take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
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by pvg 2y ago
She was in a war in a way Houdini was not so their circumstances were rather different.
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by pvg 2y ago
It actually works like this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40014518 and they just threw another person into the maple syrup/bacta tank
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by pvg 2y ago
Discussion the other day https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43549618
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by pvg 2y ago
Recent discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43553031
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by pvg 2y ago
A few weeks ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43285234 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43287174
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by pvg 2y ago
Big related thread last week https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43498984
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by pvg 2y ago
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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by pvg 2y ago
Showhn at the time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30378562
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by pvg 2y ago
This in itself has already seen endless discussion but you can jump around some of the mod comments: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... are often important info. That's not re
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by pvg 2y ago
I don't see how they are dupes though That's how dupes work on HN - they go by 'are you going to get the same thread'. There have been many Tesla sale threads, they are all the same and none are in the slightest bit in
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by pvg 2y ago
Why do you think that? Both of these articles look flagged to me and I don't see any moderator commentary in them. Also, even if they were unflagged, they are clearly never going to be on the front page. I can't see any evidence t
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by pvg 2y ago
“It’s tech” is not in itself a golden ticket to HN ontopicness. Both of your links are effective dupes (by HN’s long established dupery rules) - they have had multiple recent discussions. Both are also repeat flamewar topics. This is about
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by pvg 2y ago
Sure, but the reason that question is being raised is so that we can decide for ourselves how good your evidence is - both conceptually and concretely. It certainly doesn't mean you have to share it but it makes the discussion actual
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by pvg 2y ago
Because repetitive flamewars make the rest of HN flamey and worse, and enough of it can burn the whole place down - this is a thing that happens to forums and HN is explicitly built around the premise of fending that off for as long as poss
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by pvg 2y ago
I'm looking at it and I'm not seeing what you're seeing. What currently active story do you feel should be on the front page? Or stories since you're saying this is a common problem.
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by pvg 2y ago
stories that are extremely relevant to hacker news and techies. That's a difficult argument to make, especially without examples because at the end of the day, everything is related/relevant to everything somehow. HN's on-t
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by pvg 2y ago
There is way too much being flagged as a downvote versus as a flag. What's the evidence for this? That users are flagging regular news stories?
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by pvg 2y ago
The person you’re responding to is not Paul Graham. We're all Paul Graham! https://youtu.be/FKCmyiljKo0?t=65
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by pvg 2y ago
Ok but you said YC is suppressing this story on HN and I don't believe that is true and it looks like you don't believe it is true either.
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by pvg 2y ago
That is natural canadon decay. Think uranium slowly turning into lead, that sort of thing.
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by pvg 2y ago
You can send an email and ask for an exception to be made. 'YC built the flagging' feels like somewhat non-responsive sophistry to me - users are rejecting these stories because HN is is not a current affairs forum. I don't t
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by pvg 2y ago
These aren't getting flagged by 'YC', just like your local bowling league is not oppressing book clubs and Ren Faire by not organizing those things.
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by pvg 2y ago
I would say it mimics real life interactions of some communities. I do not think that is universal. I would say this is straight up wrong. It is universal since it's fundamental to being a social animal. There's a cost to being
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by pvg 2y ago
Can you link some of these better discussions on better sites? Dissenting views are regularly highly visible, often as replies to consensus views. Even better - well-argued counter-narrative/counter-conventional wisdom views regularly
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by pvg 2y ago
He's known as an advocate for and analyst of (sometimes critically, often less so) one of the biggest, richest technology companies in the world. That's his whole gig.
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by pvg 2y ago
That ‘presumably’ is doing a lot of lifting and would be better supported by some examples of such posts.
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by pvg 2y ago
I can't really relate to the mindset of people who use downvoting as a 'I disagree' button. That's a valid use of the button by design, HN is literally made to allow for that use. Plus it mimics real life interactions
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by pvg 2y ago
Requiring justification for flags would immediately crud up threads with meta-debates. That is true and I used to say it but the receipts people evade it with non-public receipts (which can maybe later somehow be audited). So I'm swi
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by pvg 2y ago
Yeah, that's the 'receipts for everything' idea and if you think it through, you'll realize it's at a minimum impractical and more likely just an outright bad idea. Where are these 'reasons' going to go? W

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