shii
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I've quit this shithole.
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Comment · 15 years ago
This is also why 4chan blocks all access from Tor nodes. The only people who use 4chan from Tor are people posting CP and/or evading their ban.
Comment · 15 years ago
We do, please.
Comment · 15 years ago
Someone get this man a medal. And apparently this was back in 2006, which is a little scary.
Comment · 15 years ago
Something terrible must have happened to the poor schmuck.
Comment · 15 years ago
Reminds me of that one Microsoft search site that was interactive with some lady at a desk, used to launch Bing or something. From 2008 I believe. it was http://ms (name of chick).com I remember.
Also, there were other swfs like this from way back on ol feanor's directory: http://www.feanor.net/z0r/shock/
Comment · 15 years ago
Has been working great for years here, no bugs to speak of across 3 browsers and 3 OSes. Notifo notifications are amazing. UI is second to none. Flawless local/offline sync, so no downtime ever. Tagging system works great, and it's how I know what to do next all day.
My only gripes are
1) no mobile version (it works on my iPhone, but it's not the optimal experience to have to drag left and right. a dedicated app would be better imo)
2) there's no faqs/documentation/getting started guide/features/nada. No help desk if you're stuck or having problems. Despite all this, it has lots of users still apparently. Contacting the developer valentin shergin (yandex guy) is a shoot and miss. Development seems to have slowed down a lot, but there's some new features popping up here and there. Mostly active in Russian community.
Comment · 15 years ago
You will take http://thn.gs from my cold, dead hands.
Comment · 15 years ago
First time I've ever actually laughed on Hacker News.
Comment · 15 years ago
Reminds me of Manpacks: http://manpacks.com/
Comment · 15 years ago
Original story[1] by jsrfded (also creator of site) which didn't get enough traction.
I think it's particularly useful nowadays considering how slow and sluggish HN has been (at least for me). Plus there are some real gems that pop up every time you refresh.
As he says:
The other day I "ran out" of stuff to read on Hacker News. I had looked at everything that interested me, and had even checked out page 2 (I was getting desperate). I realized that there were thousands of great HN threads that I hadn't seen because I hadn't been paying attention to the site when they were ranking. So I pulled together a little db of the top 10,000 HN threads (loosely defined; a thread with >1 points, 1> comments, and some web link rank). I put these into a random shuffle so that reload would give me 30 fresh threads that I (probably) hadn't seen before. I'm pretty happy with this. Lets me scratch my HN itch when I've exhausted the main page, and it's often interesting to see the old material again.
Comment · 15 years ago
This is the true best of HN, imo: http://www.skrenta.com/hn/
Comment · 15 years ago
Well, he was right. The Reddit frontpage and vast majority of the new users (new being under 2/1 years old accts) have turned it into a complete idiocracy. On the other hand, the niche and smaller subreddits about specific pursuits and topics are doing pretty decently. Hivemind think and other stupidity still leaks in, but it's not too bad. The problem is as subreddits grow, they turn to crap. Look at the problem with the starcraft subreddit or plethora of marijuana subreddits.
I particularly like the subreddits that aim for better signal/noise ratio from the get-go and the good folks that help police them. One particularly outstanding fellow is blackstar9000, mod, creator, and prolific poster/commenter of several nice niche subreddits who has helped keep things in line. If there's any one who deserves some kudos in that regard, I'd nominate him/her for the honor.
Comment · 15 years ago
Extremely unusual. Last.fm has one of the best uptimes of any large site with lots of constant traffic that I know of. I hope it's something benign and not some catastrophic event.
Comment · 15 years ago
Any use this yet and can share experience?
edit: no irc channel found for veracity-scm, does it exist anyone? also, I found the piping method they used to get their PGP key was causing issues with sudo, just wasn't accepting my pass with two sudo statements like that for some reason. It worked when I separated them.