Hacker Read

shane_armstrong · 2012-05-25 06:43:30

I would also more than happily pay for hacker news, but since it's free and user submitted I think it is a different case.

Perhaps there should be a general news site where the users submit the news articles themselves, it would probably be faster than the ACTUAL news companies who have to send out a reported, as opposed to a civilian on the streets witnessing it happen.

(Of course, then the news corporations would leech off the site.)

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mixmax | karma 18160 | avg karma 6.08 · | 2008-04-16 21:21:23+00:00

Hacker news is probably the only site I would pay for.

It seems to me there are pretty good free alternatives to just about everything else.

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smackfu | karma 10800 | avg karma 2.37 · | 2011-09-28 13:21:51+00:00

I think someone could definitely get a lot of visibility writing a free good Hacker News client, instead of trying to charge $3 and being annoyed that no one buys it.

gmartres | karma 190 | avg karma 2.04 · | 2011-10-21 23:44:01+00:00

hacker-news should work too.

syspec | karma 2676 | avg karma 2.83 · | 2020-07-07 15:11:20+00:00

Sounds like a great idea, might I suggest Hacker News as a name?

Hakashiro | karma 168 | avg karma 1.62 · | 2017-09-19 10:37:28+00:00

I wish I could report these kinds of newspapers with paywalls. Hacker News should ban these sites. It doesn't make sense to share news nobody can read.

diego | karma 8429 | avg karma 6.91 · | 2012-05-05 18:06:51+00:00

I think that would be the perfect domain for Hacker News :)

dtertman | karma 132 | avg karma 3.67 · | 2015-09-29 20:53:08+00:00

(possibly insane) Idea : Open-source the Hacker News code. You have a self-selecting community of hackers. I'd bet some of them would work for free on the site. It is easier to review patches than create them!

vyrotek | karma 11585 | avg karma 5.56 · | 2010-10-21 11:06:58

There's another site that does this, I think its called Hacker News :)

balentio | karma 54 | avg karma 0.45 · | 2022-09-08 12:54:21

It'd be great to have a hacker news for things that are not hacker news. I refuse to go to reddit, though.

frosted-flakes | karma 3661 | avg karma 1.65 · | 2019-06-11 15:48:06

What about websites like Hacker News?

francisduvivier | karma 166 | avg karma 3.02 · | 2021-10-25 08:36:48

Sooo, do we already have something like this for Hacker News?

calvin | karma 1337 | avg karma 6.08 · | 2009-02-05 15:14:27

Yes, definitely. Hacker News is worth more than $5/year to me with the amount of time I spend on it and it'd be worth it if it keeps users more reasonable.

cbsks | karma 2803 | avg karma 4.31 · | 2019-10-08 20:07:16

Now if only Hacker News would implement it!

wheels | karma 19055 | avg karma 6.57 · | 2008-07-16 03:22:22

Then I might suggest subscribing to the New York Times. Can the rest of us keep our Hacker News feed?

dphnx | karma 559 | avg karma 14.71 · | 2014-02-20 09:21:20+00:00

You could start your own. Call it “Hacker Hacker News: Hacker News for Hackers”

_nedR | karma 1054 | avg karma 2.43 · | 2015-03-06 06:51:54+00:00

Nice idea. This deserves a hacker news post on its own.

dmcclurg | karma 55 | avg karma 2.75 · | 2011-12-07 16:20:31+00:00

Do anyone know if there is a Hacker News Web Service?

ourarash | karma 14 | avg karma 0.19 · | 2017-07-31 21:15:24+00:00

It would be interesting to see an extension of this that gives out stuff to post on hacker news.

VMG | karma 8688 | avg karma 3.0 · | 2013-08-21 11:51:00+00:00

Hacker News should be an API.