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Otherwise, eventually word would get out to content creators that, if they want exposure on HN, they'd have to put their content somewhere other than Twitter/X.
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting.
If there's things on Twitter that are interesting, they may be submitted. Blocking Twitter would effectively block quite a few interesting submissions. Furthermore, most people don't go to Twitter to get HN upvotes; they're going there for likes and retweets.
Blocking Twitter would effectively block quite a few interesting submissions.
I would guess that they get upvoted because people aren't aware of the concern, people are aware but disagree, people are aware and at least sorta disagree but didn't notice this time, or there's shill upvoting.
Regardless of the reason, in theory, HN might have the power to change the behavior of Twitter/X posters.
I don't subscribe to subscriptions, so NYT links etc... useless to me.
I block privacy-abusing domains... AlphaGoogle links etc are inaccessible.
I won't disable my adblocker... many commercial sites linked here no good to me.
No Chrome browser... many other sites here don't work.
Maybe it's crazy to expect the net to contain interesting websites that don't have wall-to-wall ads, tracking, require a subscription, or are limited to one specific browser. On the other hand, the web is an order of magnitude larger today than when I used to find such sites.
If it were up to me, each link on HN would have a 'bad ux flag' button, and account settings would have a 'hide bad ux' filter. Then I would have the choice to browse HN without sifting through bad links myself.
Do they check the github for PRs? That might be worth learning Arc for.
And yet individual tweets can be read without an account. Of course, that doesn't work in this case as you will only see the first tweet in the thread, but you still can read a lot of HN submissions from Twitter.
X (formerly Twitter) has a large trove of valuable content that dates from the "Twitter 1.0" era as well.
For the sake of consistency, I would expect that a sexually explicit book would not be put in the hands of kids, same as we already do with other types of content such as music, movies and games.
Now, there are books that should be banned. Like the Golden book of Chemistry Experiments and other books that can lead to potentially dangerous outcomes.