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Happy birthday!
Long may it continue :)
Paul, thanks for taking the time and putting in the effort to create a website I really value. I've learned a lot over the last little bit and continue to do so.
Job well done.
Here are some intellectually unflattering sample headlines from the front page right now:
4. Like NASCAR Drivers, Our Politicians Should Wear Uniforms Clearly Stating Their Sponsors
5. Oh, Canada. “When statements are said that God probably does not exist, this is an implied statement of hatred towards all those who do believe that God exists.”
13. The head of the DEA spent more than $123,000 to charter a private jet to fly to Bogota, Colombia, last fall instead of taking one of the agency's 106 planes.
15. PWNED!!!
19. Citigroup, which lost $18 Billion Last year, laid off 39,000 and got a $52 Billion Govt Bailout still provides perks to directors and former CEOs such as airplanes, helicopters, and drivers costing millions of dollars per year.
20. Cousin of 9/11 Hijacker Arrested as Israeli Spy
21. Fuck the media. CBS Evening News only points to $4600 from Stanford to Obama as well as showing Bill Clinton and Nancy Pelosi. No mention of McCain's $28K or any other Republican. (1:55 video)
22. Ten years. Ten FUCKING years you've been following me. And for what? PIKACHU?
23. Woman Blinded By Acid Requests That Her Attacker Be Blinded With Drops Of Acid In Each Eye. Iranian Court Accomodates Her.
25. Giant rat caught in China
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/
The reddit RSS feed is also considerably better & I find that invaluable.
realizing that the writing was on the wall, pg created hacker news. it started off just like reddit, but with different priorities.
it's sad that reddit has become what it has, but it's run by a company with profit motives. most of us would have probably done the same thing, had we been in their shoes.
Probably a really sweet submission. Like "new web framework lightspeed lisp screencast by Paul Graham on Justin.tv".
Well, participating (silently) in conversations between the advantages of one programming language/tool over another.
Reading some of the most thoughtful comments from users who clearly seem to know what they are talking about.
Experimenting with new web startups that launched here for the first time that are eager to get feedback.
Getting/giving advices on what to do and what not to do to achieve success in different fields.
Being constantly reminded that smart people who want to impact are everywhere.
Still don't know how to program, but I am loving HN. If I had to have one digital home HN would be the IT.
Thanks to every user, moderator, to the founder and to myself for mingling with smarter individuals.
HBHN
Hacker News is 10!
http://web.archive.org/web/20070221033032/http://news.ycombi...
Wait, I sense a disturbance in the Force:
2x365+1=731 < 864
Oh right, not Python.
I'm not sure what counts as character and this is obviously subjective but my personal feeling is that HN's quality has taken a slight hit in the past year. It doesn't seem as unique as it once was and many of the topics that make it to the front page seem to be more formulaic. Furthermore many newcomers seem to post the same things that were raised here previously. I've lost track of the number of topics about hosting providers, credit card processing and the like. Also with the increased volume it's been hard to make effective use of the "new" page. Odd things that may interest me that don't quickly get enough attention are lost faster.
Unfortunately I predict growth and network effects will speed up this trend and 2 years from now HN will likely be much less interesting as the HN of a year or two ago.
Happy birthday, Hax0rs!
I came here to say that I really like the design of this web site (despite of what some others say), but the stability seems lacking sometimes. The site is often inaccessible. I was going to suggest reimplementing everything in ASP.NET and VB.NET, but in RMS's presence, I don't dare.
On HN, dhh is DHH but rms is not RMS.
DHH, the Ruby guy? Sorry about posting that Lua vs Ruby benchmark link.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. It won't be rewritten in ASP.Net because of this: http://arclanguage.org/
I'm happy to see that you didn't do any major changes to the look and feel of this website, most sites tend to change for the worse after receiving more and more hits. Good job!
So, what are your plans for the next year at HN and how can we help with them?
P.S. Happy Birthday HN
It means quite a lot of HN visitors (which are not necessarily just registered HN users) have installed Alexa toolbar.
Which is what ultimately Alexa rank mean. It is a huge source of bias - different types of sites have very different likelihood that their visitors would have installed Alexa toolbar.
Oh, Internet Wilderness were Paradise enow!
(apologies to Omar Khayyam)
"This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius ♫ Golden living dreams of visions ♪ And the mind's true liberation"... well I'm no mystic but I just love us aquariuses!
Congrats on a fun site so far, Paul. Hope it continues.
I think that the 14x growth happened because there is a nice atmosphere here that you won't find anywhere...