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by byearthithatius 262 days ago
I miss the old HN. Now "news" is just randoms advertising their substack which isn't even related to tech or science. OP has literally only ever posted their own stuff and never made a comment on anything else here. The article has nothing to do with tech, science, or hacking. Just vague self improvement rules stated as facts.

When I first came here it was FILLED with random blogs teaching you cool tricks in JavaScript or particle simulations with Go or comparing Rust and C. Now its 95% AI and substack ads.
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peanut_merchant 262 days ago
Personally been here about 15 years. There are ebbs and flows of different trends, but HN has never been pure tech or science.

My favourite thing about HN has always been it's sprinkling of the "interesting/thought provoking" amongst the more technical or science based e.g. 5 in depth articles about <insert language tech stack etc.>, blog post on seagulls in 1973 east Berlin, philosphical article ruminating on death and coding, Go compiler written in C# etc. etc.

I get the point about self promotion. But fwiw I think this list is quite insightful, and a fun read.

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lapcat 262 days ago
The article submitter is the article author and is violating the HN guideline against using HN primarily for self-promotion. The account's (limited) history is entirely self-promotion.

Flag the submission.

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SirFatty 262 days ago
But it gets voted up by the people... so it must be valuable to someone.

I have the same sentiment about Slashdot btw, now a ghost of its former self.

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byearthithatius 262 days ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFgcqB8-AxE

Not all people. But look what happened to Reddit. Started as mostly coders now its slowly being turned into another content machine.

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mcphage 262 days ago
> But look what happened to Reddit. Started as mostly coders now its slowly being turned into another content machine.

I think Reddit managed that best. Getting rid of the "default" subreddit seemed like a dumb idea when they did it, but looking back on the effect, it allowed Reddit to exist as a thousand different, distinct, often disjoint communities, rather than trying to push everyone into a single place together.

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