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Hacker News (HN) is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship. It is run by the investment fund and startup incubator Y Combinator. In general, content that can be submitted is defined as "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."[1]
The site was created by Paul Graham in February 2007.[2] Initially called Startup News or occasionally News.YC., it became known by its current name on August 14, 2007.[3] It developed as a project of Graham's company Y Combinator, functioning as a real-world application of the Arc programming language which Graham co-developed.[4]
At the end of March 2014, Graham stepped away from his leadership role at Y Combinator, leaving Hacker News administration in the hands of other staff members.[5][6] The site is currently moderated by Daniel Gackle who posts under the username dang.[7]Gackle co-moderated Hacker News with Scott Bell (username sctb) until 2019 when Bell stopped working on the site.[8]
The intention was to recreate a community similar to the early days of Reddit.[2][9] However, unlike Reddit where new users can immediately both upvote and downvote content, Hacker News does not allow users to downvote content until they have accumulated 501 "karma" points. Karma points are calculated as the number of upvotes a given user's content has received minus the number of downvotes.[2] "Flagging" comments, likewise, is not permitted until a user has 30 karma points.[10]
Graham stated he hopes to avoid the Eternal September that results in the general decline of intelligent discourse within a community.[4] The site has a proactive attitude in moderating content, including automated flame and spam detectors and active human moderation. It also practices stealth banning in which user posts stop appearing for others to see, unbeknownst to the user.[11] Additional software is used to detect "voting rings to purposefully vote up stories".[2]
According to a 2013 TechCrunch article: "Graham says that Hacker News gets a lot of complaints that it has a bias toward featuring stories about Y Combinator startups, but he says there is no such bias. [...] Graham adds that he gets a lot of vitriol from users personally with accusations of bias or censoring."[2]
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Hacker News is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship. It is run by Y Combinator, a startup accelerator, and it's known for its minimalist interface. Users can post stories (such as links to articles), comment on them, and vote them up or down, affecting their visibility.
Hacker News (anciennement Startup News ou encore News.YC ; le nom actuel date du 14 aot 2007[1]) est un site de partage social de liens cr le 19 fvrier 2007, avec pour objectif de crer une communaut proche de celle de Reddit ses dbuts[2] tout en vitant le phnomne de septembre ternel[3]. Il est centr autour de l'actualit des technologies informatiques, du hacking et des startups, et promeut tout contenu susceptible de gratifier la curiosit intellectuelle des lecteurs[4].
Le site est tenu par l'entreprise de Paul Graham, Y Combinator, qui combine les activits de fonds d'investissement et d'incubateur de startups. Il fonctionne avec le langage de programmation Arc que Graham a codvelopp, et auquel il servait initialement de test grandeur nature[5],[6]. Les news sont prsentes sur la page d'accueil selon un algorithme de classement prenant en compte de nombreux paramtres, notamment l'anciennet du post, le taux de rebond et les commentaires. Hacker News diffre des autres sites de social news comme Slashdot ou Reddit en ce qu'il ne propose pas de voter ngativement pour les contenus proposs par les utilisateurs. Il offre cependant des fonctions de signalement du spam, et de vote ngatif pour les commentaires partir d'un certain niveau de karma .
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