this is my flow HN frontpage > HN new > techcrunch >venturebeat or gigaom> afterwards I find myself sort of stuck. NYT and Wired most interesting articles have already been posted on HN. Where else do u go?
if some1 is offended by "u" than they r clearly complicatd and taking life a bit too seriously. and besides isn't this web 2.0 where we have flickR and Youniversity I think those are more morphed than my "u"
i totally agree. unfortunately this is how i earn part of my income. reading all sort of tech news, gathering the info, and use it to help clients get on the boat.
That's fine. Please, though, write properly (i.e., capitalization and spelling). You can take the time. We are a community that would really, really prefer it.
"we". I think your comment implies that you are a veteran of this community and that I am the fresh rookie who needs guidance. Well, I guess you have learned quite a lot in the last 58 days and 12 submissions to be in a position to "we" me. Seriously, I am going to try to make you happy and write properly, but in return I am hoping you will tone your expectation as far as grammar and spelling a tiny bit. Look at the design of this site, it eliminates anything not necessary, but if you must insist that I hit shift about 11 times, just so you understand me no more than if I did not, then I will. Lastly since you are that upset about the capitalization I would suggest you stop looking at your username because your golden rule doesn't apply there, and neither does it on the reply button.
EDIT: Even the sentences in your comment are not well structured.
I think he's referring to your usage of "u". Adding four characters to your title isn't that hard, and the above poster "newbie" or not is right, I think we'd all prefer to see "you" instead of "u".
"u've" has got to be the most interesting grammatical construct I've seen online. I mean look at it, it's like he's trying to be correct, but not at the same time.
Hey, that's a subtle observation. I wonder what linguists would call this. It looks a bit like an overcorrection (the classic example of that is when people use "I" as an object, as in Bill Clinton's famous campaign line, "That's very important to Al Gore and I"). But I'm not sure it's the same thing.
I would prefer you to use a different username. i am 100% sure jkush is not your real name, but is close to it. now why don't you drink your own koolaid and not morphed words. You have done the same with your username as I have done with "u". jkush. are you serious?
go ahead. be my guest. if this makes you any happier. i could give you a good 200 and still be ahead of you. frankly i can care the less i am not running a popularity contest, i think that is what makes the difference between YC and other communities. you can downmod all day, i can really care the less. what do you think will happen if i ask 10 people to go and downmod you all day. i outsource by trade, so believe it, when i say you will end up with 0 karma points in less than 57 minutes.
What crap? Defending my position is nothing crappy at all. Some users being offending by punctuation is crappy. Like we are in a beauty pageant.This user is talking about downmoding all my previous posts that have nothing to do with this one. What is crappier then that? Disappointing.
If your job is to read news for research then perhaps you should get on the case and do your own evaluation of the best sources of news for your research.
Dude, I am not asking you to tell me how to improve my job. Maybe in another post I will. If you cannot answer my question, then you should hold your peace forever. I am not interested in your advices. Post news links or Comment on someone else's posts. that's all.
Read a book. Also, whenever I read a good blog post I add the feed to Google Reader, so I have a ton of those. Email me if you want some. Reddit/programming is usually good for something too.
Your color selection was painful to my eyes. I use firefox. But somehow you pallete of blue on black was really annoying. I am sorry but my reaction is so strong, I cannot imagine why you would do that.
Believe it or not it looks just how I like. But I plan to make the theme selectable on the site at some point and I could make the default theme more conservative. I use firefox too. I'm a programmer and look at screens late in to the night and bright sites are painful to my eyes after about 10pm. I love to read the feeds on a dark subdued screen rather than on a site crowded with distractions and colors. Sorry to annoy you, maybe it's like a song that annoys you the first time you hear it and then later you can't get enough it is so refreshing and different. :)
After my RSS feeds have been dealt with, I have a ton of links saved in my Instapaper account to read... then there are the pdfs, not to mention the books...
Oh, and I haven't even got to the work yet!
(p.s. - Instapaper.com, I love you)
I made it for myself. It is intended to contain the most interesting stories at the moment. It is updated every 10 min with the top 3 stories from a bunch of most emailed type feeds (that I have tweaked over time), sorted by when the story was noticed first.
I use it as my homepage. The latest story comes up automatically. Occasionally I use the keyboard shortcuts (arrow keys, r -- see bottom right) to review the rest.
If anyone uses it, feed ideas are always appreciated.
I think you are getting a lot of negative feedback here because when there is an avalanche of articles available to read, the more interesting question is how do you filter it all down to just a few useful ones. Even with Hacker News being the highest signal to noise site I read currently, the vast majority of articles are noise (to me).
I would love to see a "mark all as read" button on the front page, which would ensure I never see any of those articles on the front page again.
is it inconsistent? i'm in the same boat: used to waste a lot of time, now buckling down to get something done, and i'll waste time again once i'm filthy rich.
what if reading is doing? reading is (can be)very productive. Take an analyst who reads a tone of data and makes decision for a company. Reading in this case is very much like doing, because without it he could not make any decision. Of course you could argue, he can simply use a decision making software, but what does the software do? READ data and make decision based on what it READ.
Let's face it. Most of the "reading" people do online is in the form of "omg pictures of lolcats". There is no analysis going on here, it's just time killing.
To answer your question with a question, where do you want to go?
You don't really specify where your interests lie or what type of "news" you're looking for. I could tell you where I go, but unless you're into the exact same things that I'm into, you're just going to be bored. I don't think anybody's really looking to plan your day for you.
i spend way too much time reading on newscred. its my startup, so i'm biased. but losing track of time and getting hooked is a good sign for the product i guess.
if you're a dev, artima.com, lambda-the-ultimate, http://c2.com/cgi/wiki. Find some delicious, magnolia, etc user whose interests align with yours. Build your own Google custom search engine.
"u"?
I guarantee that if there were some even cooler place than HN for smart people to gather, I wouldn't ruin it by telling "u"!