I came here to say that I really like the design of this web site (despite of what some others say), but the stability seems lacking sometimes. The site is often inaccessible. I was going to suggest reimplementing everything in ASP.NET and VB.NET, but in RMS's presence, I don't dare.
Absolutely. I'd like to add that the killer feature for me (well, aside from the good quality links and discussion) is "noprocrast" and that I'm particularly grateful for the relatively recent removal of the "ignore" link. It's all very much appreciated.
While I'm not much of a coder, I come to this place because there a lots of interesting articles and insightful comments. It's refreshing to see such an intelluctual crowd of people on the internet for once.
Honestly, there's still an argument to be made that compete.com is at least semi accurate. But Alexa is just a lost cause. It simply doesn't even resemble anything accurate anymore.
Actually, I'm surprised it's so high (150,637 as of today).
It means quite a lot of HN visitors (which are not necessarily just registered HN users) have installed Alexa toolbar.
Which is what ultimately Alexa rank mean. It is a huge source of bias - different types of sites have very different likelihood that their visitors would have installed Alexa toolbar.
I'm happy to see that you didn't do any major changes to the look and feel of this website, most sites tend to change for the worse after receiving more and more hits. Good job!
Congratulations. It was just this new year that I lucked into HN - and it has made a huge difference to this tech-retread (me) as I seek to play catch-up in my hacking education. A great community you've catalyzed!
714 days here, karma 117 and I couldn't be happier: this place is special, let's keep it that way, happy birthday to us! wiiiii ! what kind of birthday gift do you give to a website?
HN has completely dominated all other forums I used to read frequently, even the one I pay for membership at and have been hanging around for a decade. Thank you. (I think it's a good addiction).
So, what are your plans for the next year at HN and how can we help with them?
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 114 ms ] threadI came here to say that I really like the design of this web site (despite of what some others say), but the stability seems lacking sometimes. The site is often inaccessible. I was going to suggest reimplementing everything in ASP.NET and VB.NET, but in RMS's presence, I don't dare.
On HN, dhh is DHH but rms is not RMS.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=412440
DHH, the Ruby guy? Sorry about posting that Lua vs Ruby benchmark link.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. It won't be rewritten in ASP.Net because of this: http://arclanguage.org/
Happy birthday!
Long may it continue :)
P.S. Happy Birthday HN
It means quite a lot of HN visitors (which are not necessarily just registered HN users) have installed Alexa toolbar.
Which is what ultimately Alexa rank mean. It is a huge source of bias - different types of sites have very different likelihood that their visitors would have installed Alexa toolbar.
I'm happy to see that you didn't do any major changes to the look and feel of this website, most sites tend to change for the worse after receiving more and more hits. Good job!
I think that the 14x growth happened because there is a nice atmosphere here that you won't find anywhere...
Happy birthday, Hax0rs!
http://web.archive.org/web/20070221033032/http://news.ycombi...
Wait, I sense a disturbance in the Force:
What was HN doing 133 days before being born? And who are those mysterious elders with accounts "created:864 days ago"?Oh right, not Python.
Probably a really sweet submission. Like "new web framework lightspeed lisp screencast by Paul Graham on Justin.tv".
So, what are your plans for the next year at HN and how can we help with them?
Congrats on a fun site so far, Paul. Hope it continues.
Oh, Internet Wilderness were Paradise enow!
(apologies to Omar Khayyam)