Hacker News Reader

It's an infinite feed of content with comments and ranking based on upvotes (aka likes)

It is social media, but I'd argue that it lacks the worst incentives of social media: monetization and ads, which lead to attention-hacking algorithms and regression to lowest common denominator content.

It still leverages social and internet points which for some is attention-hijacking enough.

> It still leverages social and internet points which for some is attention-hijacking enough.

The difference is it’s not deliberate, it’s just how they get us to rank training data for ChatGPT 5.

Eh, its monetized in a different way. YC has a vested interest in programmers being exposed to YC companies such that they might go work/start one of them.

Sure the occasional "Promoted post" is way less than say Reddit or mid-roll ads.

The ranking doesn’t seem to be based on likes alone.

For a real social media the content should be ranked by the likes of my peers, a feature non existent on HN

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