[vacri]

Sadly the business side of HN has completely evaporated in recent months. It used to be 40/40/20 business/hacking/other stuff, now it seems it's 0/50/50. There's too much miscellaneous other stuff these days, which is making HN into a generic jumpsite. I think that the guidelines need updating.

[PhasmaFelis]

God, I wish that were true. HN has always had a heavily disproportionate stock of articles about/relevant to startups, a tiny subset of hackerdom, because Y-Combinator. Less businessgab would be awesome. The "miscellaneous other stuff" can stay as long as it's either interesting tech, political news relevant to the interests of the internet and the people who maintain it, or general smart-people stuff.

[vacri]

Well, I went and had a look at the numbers for the current front page, and they're 17:10:1:2 hacker:misc:business:showHN. I put Show HN separately because they fit all three categories. So without the Show HN, that's 1 business article out of 28.

It doesn't seem out of the ordinary for content these days - the sad thing is that there are tons of tech jumpsites out there, but very few sites that meld business to tech stuff. Despite the name, 'hacker' news was focused on the startup world (it's essentially an advertising mechanism for a startup incubator).

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hacker: apollo 11 source code, call for hackers, machine learning, julia language, origami robot wheels, neural network framework, self-rubber-ducking, swift, A*, SHA3 announcement, Stanford dataset, nature of code, awesome-fonts, equational reasoning, new math for science, nexusUI, dnswatch

misc: beach lego, armstong moon words, people over pleasure, beware of phishing at airbnb, phones on air force one, guide to logic, engineered century/armstrong. lobster economics (content isn't really business, despite the name), rocket-colling icebag, fun with turbulence

business: problem with founders

show HN: gamedevs, coredemia

[Natsu]

You're right. Some of these submissions are just sad, linkbaity nonsense. I'm going to head over to /newest and see what little I can do to improve things.

EDIT: There was some interesting stuff on /newest. I just wish I could do a bit more than push them from 1 to 2.

I'd much rather read more things like http://theaviationist.com/2014/07/21/su-27s-escorted-mh17/ or http://keccak.noekeon.org/

[ternaryoperator]

I only wish it were 50% hacking! I miss the lively discussions of programming topics that are more than Go's and Rust's latest features. (Not that I mind those discussions at all.)