Hacker News News 7 Nov: Anti-procrastination features Like email, social news sites can be dangerously addictive. So the latest version of Hacker News has a feature to let you limit your use of the site. There are three new fields in your profile, noprocrast, maxvisit, and minaway. (You can edit your profile by clicking on your username.) Noprocrast is turned off by default. If you turn it on by setting it to "yes," you'll only be allowed to visit the site for maxvisit minutes at a time, with gaps of minaway minutes in between. The defaults are 20 and 180, which would let you view the site for 20 minutes at a time, and then not allow you back in for 3 hours. You can override noprocrast if you want, in which case your visit clock starts over at zero. 20 August: Six-month anniversary Today is the six-month anniversary of the launch of News.YC. So far the growth rate seems to be about 5x per year. (These graphs would look more impressive if they had the usual aspect ratio.) It looks as if broadening the focus of the site has made it more engaging, because there are more page views per user, but it's still too early to say for sure. As of today we've expanded the focus of News.YC from startup news to hacker news generally. 6 August: Top users by karma per submission Recently a user asked which Startup News users had the most karma per submission. Since the server has a read-eval-print loop this is straightforward to figure out:
(bestn 20
(compare > [_ 2])
(map (fn (user)
(withs (stories (keep astory (submissions user))
ns (len stories))
(list user
ns
(if (> ns 10)
(median (map [_ 'score] stories))
0))))
(news-users))))
Here are the users with over 10 submissions who have the
highest median points per submission:
(paul 43 12) (aston 12 9) (socmoth 11 9) (andrew_null 23 8) (waleedka 14 8) (nivi 12 7) (toffer 32 6) (kul 23 6) (jkush 43 5) (jkopelman 39 5) (Alex3917 34 5) (sharpshoot 85 5) (palish 31 5) (BioGeek 19 5) (brett 174 5) (dfranke 14 5) (gustaf 12 5) (pg 198 5)Congratulations to Paul Buchheit (and thanks)! 4 August: Protection against karma bombing A few days ago a user methodically downmodded several other users' old comments to kill their karma. To prevent this happening in future, the downarrow now disappears off comments more than a day old. Also the karmas and story/comment scores affected have been restored to whatever they would have been without those downvotes. We just released a new version of news.yc that fixes a bunch of small things that bothered users. Vote urls for logged in users are now static urls instead of hashes representing closures. This makes the site significantly faster, and makes hash keys expire more slowly for cases that really need them (like form submissions). We hope this will save users from seeing "expired link" after taking a long time to submit a form. Also, there are now "More" links at the bottom of every page that displays a list of stories, not just the front page; and long urls in comments get truncated so they don't mess up the page width. The latest version lets you delete submissions and comments. For those who care about the details, there are now two different ways to get rid of something: to mark it as dead, which is for editors to do to spams and offtopic submissions, and to delete it, which is for submitters who change their minds. The reason for the distinction between killing and deleting is to avoid accusations of censorship. Anyone who does want to see the stuff killed by the editors can do it by setting showdead to yes in his profile. But it seemed right to offer submitters a more thorough sort of deletion for their own stuff. 12 June: Vote Without Refreshing The latest version of News.YC finally lets you vote without refreshing the page. Thanks to Paul Buchheit for writing the Javascript, and Trevor Blackwell for help integrating it. Sorry this took so long. Let us know if you notice any breakage. The latest version of News.YC has a new feature: a jobs page where you can see jobs posted by startups we've funded. The next best thing to starting a startup is to go work for one. Being one of the first hires at a new startup is very much like being a founder, both in what's expected of you and in how well you can do if the company succeeds. Some of the startups we've seed funded are now established companies. Others are still just a couple guys in an apartment. What all the companies on news.ycombinator/jobs have in common is that they impressed us enough to bet our own money on them. So if you want to join a startup, there is probably no more concentrated source of good leads. 11 April: New much faster version
We just launched a new version that is 2-3x faster, thanks to Robert
Morris, who rewrote some of the innards of Arc not to cons so much.
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