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Sun, 27 Apr 2008 01:20:47 +0000

[...] news website designed for the “ycombinator community”, and has been hailed by many (Michael Arrington among others) as a leading source of news for programming, hacking, and [...]

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www.ubraniaroxy.pl » Blog Archive » Hacker News Bans Valleywag — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:04:07 +0000

[...] yet attracted such a large readership that the trolls have taken up permanent residence. After mentioning them a couple of times and seeing comments asking me to please stop writing about them, I asked the [...]

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Hacker News Considers Banning Valleywag. — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:38:43 +0000

[...] hasn’t yet attracted such a large readership that the trolls have taken up residence. After mentioning them a couple of times and seeing comments asking me to please stop writing about them, I asked the [...]

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Breaking the Techmeme Habit - BuzzYA! — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:50:15 +0000

[...] News: When Mike Arrington mentioned that the little-known site, Hacker News, was his first morning read, the site received an influx of [...]

By: Peter Cooper

Peter Cooper — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:10:38 +0000

I’ve been a Hacker News member for quite a while now, and yes, it’s a great site with low levels of snarkiness. Sadly, this is likely to change, as it has for Reddit and previously Digg.

One place that always seems to provide great, up to date links in all sorts of topics areas, however, is del.icio.us. I’m taking this as proof that link / bookmarking that DON’T allow discussion / comments will tend to avoid snarkiness, simply because there’s nowhere to be snarky! Thoughts?

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Quotably: The Perfect Tool To Make Sense Of Twitter · ordaso.com — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:08:13 +0000

[...] found this via HackerNews, my new favorite news site. In a comment, the creator, Ben Tucker of Green River, says it was just a weekend [...]

By: shafqat

shafqat — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:15:04 +0000

Just saw this. The highlighted post was just one example of the many times the Hacker News community have come through in a big way to help out my startup. Its amazing – I really think the forte of HN is the question/feedback threads rather than the standard social news link free-for-all. Something that truly sets it apart. I hope it continues to impress.

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Quotably: The Perfect Tool To Make Sense Of Twitter — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 04:35:55 +0000

[...] found this via HackerNews, my new favorite news site. In a comment, the creator, Ben Tucker of Green River, says it was just a weekend project. [...]

By: Derek

Derek — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:38:39 +0000

Thanks for exposing an awesome resource for serious entrepreneurs to the general groupies who will undoubtabley ruin the site.

Good job Mike…

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:57:45 +0000

“Hopefully as the site continues to attract new users, the magic won’t be lost.”

I can see that being a concern here.

By: Alex P

Alex P — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:39:03 +0000

Hmmm … no LOLCATZ, no Top 10 lists, no save-the-planet crap.
It’s a better looking digg with a way better content. Thanks for a note.

Calling it a _Hacker_ news is a stretch though. Based on the selection
of topics I’d guess that a good half of its population wouldn’t know an
asm instruction when they’d see one …

By: Chris Mancini

Chris Mancini — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:26:59 +0000

Nice find. This will certainly become useful during our development and launch of http://www.prop...rtystampede.com.

Thanks,
Chris

By: Tom Elblum

Tom Elblum — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:39:01 +0000

HackerNews is AWFUL! STAY AWAY! Please STAY AWAY! I beg you! Don’t look at it! Don’t!!! (because it’s the only decent tech news site left unmolested by idiot roving masses, at least until today! Thanks, Mike, thanks for ruining it.)

HackerNews is BAD!!! HackerNews LIKES GEORGE BUSH! HackerNews is ALL ABOUT LISP!!! HackerNews HATES RON PAUL!!! HACKERNEWS BELIEVES OSWALD KILLED JFK!!! STAY AWAY!!! GET OUT!!!

By: MrGutts

MrGutts — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:48:52 +0000

Nice looking site, but I don’t see anything that is “hacker news”.

If you want real news go to newsnow.

http://www.news...ecurity/Hacking

or any of the sub cats.

By: Guy Rosen

Guy Rosen — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:11:41 +0000

Nice to see YCombinator making use of the Reddit engine for other good ideas!

Michael, could a successful Hacker News eventually do to TechCrunch what Digg did to Slashdot?

By: sakri

sakri — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:26:05 +0000

I wonder when “news sites” will start to have “door whores” like ‘exclusive’ nightclubs, or maybe entry fees, or entrance exams.

Competition will eventually produce something that does not choke on “enternal september”. Eventually there will be a digg, reddit or a HN which provides the signal to all users, and somehow only distributes the noise to those who want it. Till then, it’s reddit and HC for me

By: jjjj

jjjj — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:13:22 +0000

I hate comments like alot of the above have posted. How sad and pathetic. Its like saying ( its ok for me to build my house on this green lush forest but not body else has a right to do the same ) do you think you guys were the first to find out about hacker news ? perhaps the very first poster who used hacker news felt put out when you joined. does that mean your going to now leave hacker news ?

Get a life all your ( hacker news is mine and mine alone stuff , im superior to all the rest ).

How truly sad and childlike.

Mike , dont always agree with you but nice post.

By: jjjj

jjjj — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:06:03 +0000

could sowly take TC traffic away from itself.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:33:45 +0000

They are scared of us. http://news.yco.../item?id=133920

By: @gentbleu

@gentbleu — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:47:37 +0000

bugger

By: Lars

Lars — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:40:48 +0000

It was nice as long as it lasted…

By: Freud

Freud — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:08:45 +0000

@ 37 & 38

Oh yeah, you’re the two whose mommies said the playground was
“just for you” . Yesterday.

By: Moron

Moron — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:36:40 +0000

You imbecile.

By: Jesus H Christ

Jesus H Christ — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:26:52 +0000

Thanks for ruining the site, ass clown

By: Evangelist

Evangelist — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:11:55 +0000

This is similar to my site http://www.startupbug.com, just teh difference being that hacker news is more similar to Reddit.

@34 – hacker news and startupbug kind of niche sites still links back to sites like Techcrunch, so you will eventually end up reading the post at the actual sites.