To me, these articles really represent what "hacking" is - using technology exactly the way you want to, usually through modifications - and why this site deserves the title of Hacker News . They inspire us to see technology as a tool that serves us, like furniture or cooking utensils, not something you have to be generally "into" or some ecosystem to follow. Hackernoon's website predominately features articles on cryptocurrencies and blockchain, two things that really don't serve the general public [1] [2]. What's "Hacker" about an entire section dedicated to FAANG [3]? The Coding category of the site has sections on corporate philosophies like agile and scrum, but nothing on projects people have made - is that intentional? Who is the kind of person you imagine visiting the site?
Is the FAAGM “section” (quotes because it’s just a tag) linked from home page somewhat prominently? On mobile I didn’t see it. And there’s only one tagged article for me in that link on mobile.
I could have sworn that hackernoon had actually interesting content a few years ago and wasn't just another hyping tool to drive up the price of crypto.
With Indian ping times, I get a flash of unstyled content, 4 seconds till content settles down, 17.56 seconds till all 63 assets are downloaded. Even the unstyled content jumps around. Firefox on Ubuntu. Wish the designers go easy on the design.
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[ 2.4 ms ] story [ 24.6 ms ] threadhttps://hackernoon.com/hypothesis-cqrs-models-with-blockchai...
Making My Own USB Keyboard from Scratch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19181473
Hacking the Casio F-91W to Handle 1000 Psi - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20079488
Merging a Hasselblad 500C/M and a FujiFilm Instax 9 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18180760
Integrating a VT220 into my life - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11339909
Open-Source Controller for the IKEA Bekant Standing Desk - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19020257
To me, these articles really represent what "hacking" is - using technology exactly the way you want to, usually through modifications - and why this site deserves the title of Hacker News . They inspire us to see technology as a tool that serves us, like furniture or cooking utensils, not something you have to be generally "into" or some ecosystem to follow. Hackernoon's website predominately features articles on cryptocurrencies and blockchain, two things that really don't serve the general public [1] [2]. What's "Hacker" about an entire section dedicated to FAANG [3]? The Coding category of the site has sections on corporate philosophies like agile and scrum, but nothing on projects people have made - is that intentional? Who is the kind of person you imagine visiting the site?
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/17/bitcoi... [2] https://medium.com/@kaistinchcombe/decentralized-and-trustle... [3] https://hackernoon.com/tagged/faagm
With this 2.0 launch, content is easy to come by - but I will say the various shades of green are a little intense for my taste.