| Back when pg used to run the community [0], he'd deeply think about problems [1] and then later solve them [2] but not without controversy [3]. news.yc was better for it with such a strong personality at the helm who'd withstand the backlash and hold on to their convictions. I guess, we need someone of that caliber, someone to step up to usher in to the post-pg era [4], as it were. What I do to find my share of interesting links is to search on https://hn.algolia.com with different keywords and sift through those discussions, follow links in the comments, follow the commentators previous submissions and posts, follow other submissions from the website, gather new keywords and search again... it is kind of a rabbit hole once you start. Though you'd quickly begin to realise that it is great folks continue to submit links that don't end up hitting the front-page, as the aggregation of links is valuable even though the discussion is missing [5]. That said, I have stumbled upon a lot of interesting things aren't simply shared at all on news.yc, though, I guess this is by design. I just hope folks don't stop sharing links just because their previous submissions didn't generate discussion or upvotes on news.yc. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7494708 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403696 [2] http://paulgraham.com/hackernews.html [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3122233 [4] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22Ask%20PG:%22&sort=byPopular... [5] Some would argue that few news.yc comments are worth their weight in upvotes anyway: https://danluu.com/hn-comments/ |
Getting to the front page isn't predictable, it's like creating a hit song. Tons of great music gets unnoticed. There's bias and well known names have an advantage.