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Gave this an upvote, since it's from the official Notch blog instead of what could have been possible conjecture from reddit.

• TylerE 15y ago
  Please don't let this bit of reddit-stupidity transfer here. "LOl upvotd" posts don't add anything and just clutter the discussion.
  • jpeterson 15y ago
    Too late. HN has basically become reddit.com/r/programming in the last year or so. The glory days are over. You have to admire how long the quality remained high, though.
    • freehunter 15y ago
      Even though I had to highlight the text of your comment to read it, you do echo a point that has kind of irritated me somewhat. On a website called "hacker news", 90% (hyperbole) of the links are related to designing flashy GUIs and selling social web startups and whatever the flavor-of-the-week web design trend is. There's very little "do it yourself, do it quickly, do what no one has done before" spirit, it's mostly "do what everyone has done before, but flashier and in a newer language". Not that it's a bad thing in any way, but the title of "hacker news" is a bit disingenuous when "developer news" might be a little more accurate. I wish I could filter out the programming and startup stuff.
      • pessimizer 15y ago
        What's disingenuous about programming on a site called "Hacker News," and what would be left other than political posts if you took out the startup and programming stuff?
        • cynest 15y ago
          There are a number of good science posts that make the frontpage. This is originally what kept me on this site.
        • freehunter 15y ago
          It's not just the programming stuff I wish I could filter, it's the worship of Ruby, node.js, CSS, etc. Web languages that really aren't useful in the hacker sense of the word, but rather in the business sense of the word. My opinion wasn't so much about what would replace those posts, but what not having those posts would attract.
          • ceol 15y ago
            This is anecdotal, but I've seen more Python articles in the past couple of weeks than Ruby. node.js is a pretty useful tool for random hackery, and most of the CSS articles have been "hacks" for creating cool UIs. I like to think of the "Hacker" in Hacker News as someone who employs neat tricks to get the job done. Are you looking for news related to network security?
            • freehunter 15y ago
              Network security would be one aspect of hacking (actually the aspect I am employed in). Breaking out of the confines of an API would be another, or just doing something because you want to see if it can be done, not because you're following a tutorial on GitHub. Actually, someone on reddit put it best related to their plans for a Darknet project: "don't expect help from Hacker News, if it doesn't have a business plan they won't be interested." Hackers don't care about business plans. The site used to be called "Startup News", in the days when the original redditors were pining for the days of the original reddit base. Based on the content still present, Startup News is still quite fitting. In short, simply re-creating something in a new-wave language is what I'm kind of complaining about. That's not "hacking", that's just good programming.
          • rayiner 15y ago
            Hacker means people who hack on code. Why aren't languages like Ruby relevant.
      • bct 15y ago
        Hacker News was originally called Startup News; that would still be a more accurate title.
      • resnamen 15y ago
        I wish I could filter out the gadget-fanboyism. I guess I couldn't read it, but it's exasperating to see how much animosity is inflamed by such a petty subject.
    • SquareWheel 15y ago
      I came over from Reddit this last month, the number of memes just become too much for me.
      • TylerE 15y ago
        May I make the suggestion of installing Reddit Enhancement Suite. Unsubscribe from all the default sub/r's (wtf, offbeat,askreddit, etc), and block all posts from imgur and quickmeme, and things look a lot better.
        • TillE 15y ago
          Doesn't really help. The Reddit "culture" infects everything, not just the main subs. I suppose for example /r/gamedev isn't awful, but really, GameDev.net is much bigger and better. There's little reason to bother with Reddit.
        • SquareWheel 15y ago
          I did all this actually. I blocked imgur, so the majority of the posts were from Tinypic. The whole community has changed.
  • shmeeps 15y ago
    Though I don't disagree with you about adding to the discussion, I was applauding the author for actually verifying the accuracy of the story with an official source instead of just posting a link to a reddit thread that had nothing but a user-drawn image associated with it and assuming the "story" was true, which was what the previous story posting had done.