Little Known Hacker News Is My First Read Every Morning

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We're screwed now... techcrunch isn't exactly known for its overly insightful comments.<p>Welcome digg-like users!

I concur. I'm a top-10 reddit poster and Hacker News is my first site of the day now. Keep up the good work and don't be afraid to ban the idiots. Now if only somebody would set up a "Political News" site using the same code base...

With as much as we complain about how much noobs will change the site, why did he go off and do a stupid thing like put this on the front page of TC?

you guys, relax. pg has been thinking long and hard about the newbie influx problem for many months now. he saw what happened to reddit, and he's applying his usual sensible approach to preventing that from happening here.<p>if anybody can do this, pg can.

I'm not ready to pull a chicken little. I came over here from reddit after seeing pg's post on trolls on the reddit front page. Some of the earliest comments and/or posts I saw were of the "oh man, we're screwed now" type. Obviously I can't speak from experience, but I have a hard time believing the reddit crowd did HN a disservice. HN is just too darn... smart for the majority of people. On the rare occasion when some stupid POS makes it to the front page, the comment section more than makes up for it.<p>The community is too good to suffer fools gladly. And fools get bored easily.

So the obvious question is... how many sock puppet accounts does Arrington already have here? He admitted to 5 at digg, I think. Sometimes I come here first thing in the morning and it's 75% techcrunch.

&#62; Why? Because it’s focused mostly on startup and hacking news, which is what we cover. It’s one of the best places to find information on startups we haven’t heard about yet. And, better, the community is jerk-free. Comments are mostly helpful, thoughtful and interesting.<p>Hopefully the TC coverage doesn't change this ...

Oh crap, here comes eternal sept.

HN is one of the very best sites on the web. In fact, it's probably one of the best sites the web has ever had, at least for the tech/startup group. I have confidence that the right people will find it and the others will be bored and go away. It's actually kind of boring for flame wars. But great for news and ideas.

Hacker News is one of my favorite sites - i love it for the quality of the content. Hope it doesn't go down because of the attention that it's getting now.

On one hand, I'm glad that arrington validated something I've believed for a long time: news.yc is the best social news/network/app for people who are into startups.<p>On the other hand, I do not want to see this place get overrun by ron paul supporters and facebook fanboys. Where will all the cool people post news to then? Maybe swen.yc?

Does HN have an issue with scalability? The site is tremendously slow from the new influx.<p>How would you go about scaling an Arc app?

"Little known?" Or is he getting confused and <i>really</i> mean, "Different target audience?"

Hopefully we'll get to see the traffic spike chart from all this Techcrunch traffic (PG? :D)

hey man TC isn't that bad. You have to muddle through a lot of comments from what seem to be the same trolls, but once in a while you find a gem of a comment.<p>too bad there isn't a browser that can filter out comments from select people ... TC would then be much more insightful

Gee, I registered only yesterday. I'm glad I made it before it became mainstream!

ok, the word is out.<p>SHHHHHHH...

oh well at least scoble didn't get a whiteboard out to explain how it works :p

Get ready for some LOL cats.

and news.yc jumps the shark....

So does this mean that Hacker News will soon be acquired by Google?

Hacker News gets Techcrunch'd and Arc falls to it's knees. Start your "Arc can't scale as well as X" rants here <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=133489" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=133489</a>

I find it amusing people are 'upset' that HN got techcrunch'd with the story being posted on TechCrunch. You should be ecstatic the TechCrunch editor frequents this site so often as you would most likely sell your first born to get featured on TechCrunch.