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The Website Hacker News Is Afraid to Discuss

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479 points jgruber | 3 comments | 27 Mar 25 00:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.047s | source
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0898 ◴[27 Mar 25 06:56 UTC] No.43491030[source]▶
Why is this article flagged?

Hacker News and Daring Fireball have so much in common:

1. Both long-running sites 2. Both serve a curious and tech savvy audience 3. Both run zero graphics 4. Both appreciate / provide long-form journalism

They should be fine bedfellows. What's going on?

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theshrike79 ◴[27 Mar 25 07:12 UTC] No.43491118[source]▶
My bet is that there are actual people with enough karma automatically flagging every df post without considering the content for a second.

Would be cool if @dang could check the flagging data in the articles since the massive drop in 2021 and see if there are any patterns (same people doing the flagging for every article).

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1. criddell ◴[27 Mar 25 10:51 UTC] No.43492220[source]▶
I think the simplest and most likely explanation is that it’s dang himself who has a problem with Gruber.
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2. theshrike79 ◴[27 Mar 25 11:07 UTC] No.43492329[source]▶
Yea, that's the saddest option. And I'll lean towards it unless dang weighs in on the thread somehow.

Something happened in 2021 and mysteriously DF articles just fall off the front page immediately.

3. grahamj ◴[27 Mar 25 17:41 UTC] No.43495962[source]▶
yep. This is HN’s biggest flaw.