www.hackerne.ws -- My New Year's gift to YC Hacker News
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I bought this domain but I can give it to YC without money if they want it.<p>godaddy forwarding is not working so for now you have to use it with alias www. in front of the domain
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So I log in ( http://www.hackerne.ws/x?fnid=Ei8X5456V8 - see login on far right of http://www.hackerne.ws ) then you steal my password? I'd be more impressed with some neat hack that stripped out some useful data or re-think the reading process. Not a copy of what I can already use.
[0] Can be re-interpreted as "beware of geeks bearing gifts". The domain should be thought of as a Trojan.
godaddy forwarding is not working so for now you have to use it with alias www.
That said, I think that the news.yc domain name is very intentional- It emphasizes the connection the site has with the Y Combinator application and submission process.
When PG et all review yc applications, they look over the posts that people have made to the forum, and use that as an element in their judgement. Knowing that this is the case encourages people to make thoughtful and relevant posts, rather than just posting LOLcats, and the like.. Essentially, it's reddit, but your conduct matters, if you want to join the YC club.
For that reason and others, I suspect that the YC crew probably prefer the name being predominately tied with the Y Combinator brand.
This is probably why you don't see many hackers here. PG said recently that he is "cautiously optimistic" about this community. Between the lines, that sounds like disappointment. Old reddit this site is certainly not.
Hey PG, is there a change password function?
there is no even server hosting the domain. nslookup could give you a hint