In terms of human moderation, Graham himself had been spending three to four hours per day simply moderating the site. While a number of other YC alums have moderating abilities, Graham has been the main human element of the site.
Around six months ago, Graham brought on someone else, who he chose not to name, to moderate the site. Hacker News has a strong affiliation with Y Combinator, as well. Hacker News also features a jobs page that shows any jobs available at Y Combinator companies. If you are a YC founder, your username will show up in orange to other YC founders to enable these entrepreneurs to recognize and meet each other.
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. Growth has its downside. What keeps Graham up at night is worrying about the dilution of quality of the Hacker News. He explains that the site was community of insiders in the hacker world, and it has gradually been getting diluted. Ptacek agrees that the value of Hacker News has changed a bit.
He adds that more users are trolling under newly created accounts, and are deliberately starting flame wars on the site. Graham adds that he gets a lot of vitriol from users personally with accusations of bias or censoring. Firebase enables easy access from Android , iOS and the web. Servers aren't left out. If you can use one of the many Firebase client libraries , you really should.
The libraries handle networking efficiently and can raise events when things change. Be sure to check them out. Please email api ycombinator. We hope to improve the API over time. The changes won't always be backward compatible, so we're going to use versioning.
There is currently no rate limit. For versioning purposes, only removal of a non-optional field or alteration of an existing field will be considered incompatible changes. Clients should gracefully handle additional fields they don't expect, and simply ignore them.
The v0 API is essentially a dump of our in-memory data structures. We know, what works great locally in memory isn't so hot over the network. Many of the awkward things are just the way HN works internally. Want to know the total number of comments on an article?
Traverse the tree and count. Accelerators usually provide some level of pre-seed or seed investment for each startup within their cohort in return for an equity stake in the company.
Today, Techstars is backed by over 75 different venture capital firms and consistently rated among the best startup accelerators in the world. Accelerators typically offer seed money in exchange for equity in the company. Though some have recently pulled back on the amount of funding they provide, citing over funding as a major roadblock to success. Alex then goes on to stress the importance of writing great content, and then shares his strategy:.
We decided to publish the post on Thursday, October 17th. Once he was on board, I went to work lining up a team of upvoters from different IP addresses. Less than ten minutes after executing on our bulletproof strategy, our post was nowhere to be found. Testing and failing is valuable, too. An hour later, I was sitting at my desk and responding to a customer email, when a HipChat notification popped up in the corner of my screen. One of our readers, joshdance , had submitted the post himself.
Shorter, simpler, more direct. Flies in the face of the copywriting wisdom I had been reading about specificity and numbered lists. And yet, it worked! A couple of hours later, the post was still on the front page.
And at 8AM the next morning, we were sitting high at number ten. In a two-day period starting when Josh first submitted our post, we got:.
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