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[Brad Anderson]

On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 21:12:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 3/4/2014 10:28 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>
>> Apparently this post didn't get deleted, right? But it clearly 
>> didn't make it to
>> the big leagues, I see it in position 205 now.
>
> That one got marked as 'dead' too.
>
> Hackernews is mostly a Go site. I'd be very surprised if they 
> deleted a Go conference announcement.

Hacker News goes through language phases. Ruby, CoffeeScript, 
Scala, Clojure, Haskell, and now Go have all had turns being the 
darling language by the Hacker News community. It lasts a few 
months then people get bored and move on to the next thing. D may 
get a turn, it may not. They are a very fickle community. When Go 
was first announced it was almost universally panned on Hacker 
News.

Power users on Hacker News have more power than they probably 
should (often doing things like changing headlines to be less 
helpful but more cool sounding). If a post gets 10 "flags" before 
it gets 10 upvotes it'll be killed.

Anyway, there's my little rant about Hacker News. I still go 
there daily :)