358 points ofalkaed | 1 comments | 11 Oct 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.939s | source

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.

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Fuzzwah ◴[12 Oct 25 08:18 UTC] No.45556370[source]▶

Kuro5hin

I was a hold out on smartphones for a while and I used to print out k5 articles to read while afk... Just such an amazing collection of people sharing ideas and communal moderation, editing and up voting.

I learned about so many wierd and wonderful things from that site.

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MilanTodorovic ◴[12 Oct 25 08:41 UTC] No.45556503[source]▶

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Are there any spiritual successors?

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jlokier ◴[12 Oct 25 15:34 UTC] No.45558961[source]▶

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For me the progression was Slashdot -> Kuro5hin -> HN.

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1. senderista ◴[12 Oct 25 18:48 UTC] No.45560683[source]▶

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-> lobste.rs

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