HN is my new Facebook

63 点作者 herve76将近 8 年前

I find myself not checking my Facebook feed as often as before. Instead I check the HN feed more and more everyday. Am I alone? Between VR, AI, Cryptos, etc, I love the technologies of today's world. Very exciting time ahead. Thanks HN.

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pssst将近 8 年前

This is my first post so here it goes:I'm a 30 yo self-taught programmer from Romania and I've found this page a couple of months ago... since then this is my point of entry to the WWW, this is really adictive! :DGreat job maintining this!

amorroxic将近 8 年前

Been a HN user for 6+ years and after all these years HN is still pretty much the only feed I check on a daily basis. (not on Facebook so my example may not be very relevant)The thing I love about the experience can be summed up as: - no click bait headlines - no endless "engagement", notifications, round navigation and noise (incredible quality of content curation) - amazing community (comments are often more insightful than the source)Basically there comes a moment when you're up to date - reading done - and can carry on with life afterwards.

lproven将近 8 年前

Beware of echo-chambers.<a href="http://n-gate.com/" rel="nofollow">http://n-gate.com/</a>

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notadoc将近 8 年前

I stopped using Facebook years ago and the quality of my life improved notably, I would highly recommend it based on my own experience. I personally found it to be a huge waste of time, and also full of useless information that amounts to brain pollution. Do you really care what an excoworker from an old job ate for breakfast? Do you really want to know a grade school classmates political opinions? Do you really want to see vacation photos of someone you sort of once knew? How much time, energy, brain power, do you devote to any of this? Does it give you any value in your life? Does it make you feel good? etc etc etcYou might think "oh but I like it to stay in touch with people!" but eh... pick up the phone and call someone, or send them a text message. Actually communicate with the people you want to keep in touch with. Casually observing what someone is doing via internet voyeurism is not staying in touch.

marsRoverDev将近 8 年前

This only works until it gets too popular. Reddit was pretty awesome back in the day too, specifically because it had an HN-like crowd.

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arximboldi将近 8 年前

It is also like Facebook for me. Indeed, these are two first lines of my /etc/hosts and only comment them from time to time:<pre><code> 127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com 127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com</code></pre>

matthberg将近 8 年前

I find that it's a near perfect niche for news. It's slim and dead-simple: there's one feed (two if you count new, then the subdivisions show and ask), no following or friends, direct messaging is even excluded. It was built into a niche, and it expanded to fill it perfectly.

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COil将近 8 年前

Same here. Facebook will just make you loose your time and fill your brain with useless data.

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chippy将近 8 年前

I'm thinking that both Facebook and Twitter has lost that early adopter, frontier mindset that initially drew us to it. Reddit had it for a few years but has lost it now and HS has some of it in a niche way.I think that there's a huge space, a huge potential for a new social network which we, early adopters, will jump in and love.

slang800将近 8 年前

Yeah, same here. Just don't start posting cat photos or what you ate today.

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thatwebdude将近 8 年前

It would be a lot better without karma.

luord将近 8 年前

Apples and oranges for me.I use Facebook to keep up with friends and family. I use HN, among others, to keep up with technology.I see no reason for dropping one or the other, they don't even intersect for me.

parski将近 8 年前

Pipe yourself to /dev/null.

zabana将近 8 年前

HN sounds very similar to the FFF forum in Gibson's pattern recognition novel. And I mean it in a good way. Also, if it's not on Hacker News, then it's not news.

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manoj_venkat92将近 8 年前

I think wherever there's sizable amount of devs, engineers & creators are in a group. Things get pretty meta and discussions run deep in subject and quality. Good to be on HN. May people post really good tech and exciting world happenings and create a multicultural world-view among the users.Like they say in Canada : "Peace Ooooot"

dirtylowprofile将近 8 年前

I just hope HN will have an official app in the near future.

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companyhen将近 8 年前

I've been getting into Crypto a lot lately.

tnone将近 8 年前

Strange, I'm absolutely jaded on the technologies of today's world. The web and mobile phones have locked us into a shitty content consuming culture. Almost nobody is writing real novel software, they're just gluing together premade parts and managing the plumbing. I don't even blame them, the amount of effort required to just get people to look at something that doesn't open with 1 click is immense.But shunting data in and out of sql databases and making REST APIs is not novel tech work, it's just a very fragile way of describing and maintaining policy. The tech sites of old had more interesting and novel implementations in a handful of articles than passes through HN in a week, and it wasn't stuck behind a SaaS wall either.As for VR or AI, one is stuck in a rut of uninspired arcade shovelware and the other is being used for terrifying totalitarian purposes. Welcome to cyberpunk dystopia, population you.

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danielharrison将近 8 年前

I find medium is my new FB.

chinmayv将近 8 年前

I use Block site plugin for chrome which redirects facebook to HN :D

mrnutella将近 8 年前

I don't have Facebook. All the cool people are on HN.

fadolf将近 8 年前

same here, opens automatically.

allenleein将近 8 年前

Same here.

angersock将近 8 年前

You...do realize that all the news articles are basically product and startup propaganda, right?Go read some n-gate to put things in perspective.