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True, but making a NY Times-like website for tech news wouldn't work either. HN works for techies because its clean and simple, and the karma/upvote mechanism k
by shaneeb 14y ago
True, but making a NY Times-like website for tech news wouldn't work either. HN works for techies because its clean and simple, and the karma/upvote mechanism keep the content relevant. So there is a difference from NY Times.
My question then remains, what is different?
- joshuacc 14y agoThe advantage is precisely the thing that you excluded, the focus on one technology.