Hacker News Front Page Snapshot from Last Night

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by dstein64 • 15 years ago

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dstein643• 15 years ago

This was the first time I have seen the entire front page consisting of articles on one topic. The snapshot is from 11pm PDT, and it is from a site that archives the Hacker News front page.

cosgroveb• 15 years ago

I was shocked last night when I counted 27 articles about Steve Jobs and three about other stuff.

jacobolus• 15 years ago

For a while it was 30/30, and about 55 or 56 out of the 60 in the top two pages.

geoka93• 15 years ago

I saw 30/30. My first thought was that it's a special filter for the occasion. Amazing.

throw_away• 15 years ago

well, there was the great erlang flood of '09 (though I can't find a screen grab): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145

raimondious2• 15 years ago

That happened again in response to the flood of posts about _why when he "died".

dgallagher• 15 years ago

Another one: http://dave-gallagher.net/pics/hn_ipad.png

macrael• 15 years ago

Thank you for shareing. I'd feared that I wouldn't get to save that moment.

artursapek• 15 years ago

I got one as well. http://i.imgur.com/dZife.jpg

Unanimous, save for one story on Linux.

andrewljohnson• 15 years ago

I didn't get a screenshot, but it was unanimous at 11:04 PST.

http://twitter.com/#!/trailbehind/status/121827334541164544

X-Istence• 15 years ago

That one disappeared to page 3 rather quickly.

mappu• 15 years ago

Unanimous here. http://i.imgur.com/2hsac.png

fletchowns• 15 years ago

jpg for a screenshot :(

invisiblefunnel• 15 years ago

Since we're sharing :) https://twitter.com/#!/invisiblefunnel/status/12184339675835...

dstein643• 15 years ago

Here is a PDF that I captured at 11:34pm EST, that also has 30/30 articles on Steve Jobs. I was going to post a link to this, until I found the snapshot.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chro...

j45• 15 years ago

I have my screenshot too from last night. 8:57 PM PST.

http://i.imgur.com/SVokO.png

DiabloD3• 15 years ago

I counted last night that not only was the first page 30/30 Saint Jobs, but the second page was at least half Jobs.

Really, the man made an impact on everyone. I wonder why it took until he died for everyone to realize it?

bad_wolf• 15 years ago

I think it took his death only to make the realization (and discussion) simultaneous.

Heck, I had been thinking about his impact this past weekend, and I've spent a grand total of two dollars with Apple (and own no Apple hardware).

ArchD• 15 years ago

I suspect that this has something to do with the competitive nature of human beings. Publicly praising/endorsing a famous living person on one hand gives him more power, and on the other hand encourages antagonism from the detractors/enemies/competitors of that person because praising/endorsing someone is an act of aligning with that person.

Giving power to others is not something human beings naturally want to do. Neither is inviting opposition. When the subject of the praise or endorsement is dead, the whole equation changes. Dead people have no power over you, and whatever enemies or competitors they used to have are usually no longer opposed to them.

Just my two cents. It would be interesting to have a way to test this theory.

mechanical_fish• 15 years ago

People realized it all along. It just wasn't the time for everyone to say so at once.

Mourning time is that time.

It won't last forever. Mourning doesn't, and shouldn't, last forever. Which is all the more reason to make it count now, when it is appropriate.

Nican• 15 years ago

Here is my share at 11:16:14 PM http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5927713/ZScreen/Hacker_News_-_Google...

_moyo• 15 years ago

yea u seen the same exact thing but different post

catshirt• 15 years ago

in case it's not clear from the comments, op is most certainly a snapshot. surprisingly cooler than a screenshot.

felipemnoa2• 15 years ago

What is the difference?

aculver• 15 years ago

All of the links are clickable.

Achshar• 15 years ago

screenshot is an image of homepage that was taken at a specific time, snapshot is a version of homepage that was at a specific time. (version v/s image)

antoncohen• 15 years ago

30 of 30 at 8:52 PM PDT. The second page was about 25 of 30.

http://goo.gl/7o53T

ahuibers• 15 years ago

http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=3000

dstein643• 15 years ago

The next highest is 1227, so a bound of 1228 also only includes that post. http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=1228

Bry789123• 15 years ago

Actually this isn't very accurate. There are several posts higher than that, but they don't show up. Here are a few I remember being higher, I'm sure there are more. Granted one of them was about Steve Jobs too.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2555349

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2922756

bryanallen22• 15 years ago

While this is obviously the post with the most points, I just noticed that something might be broken with this. Looking for posts with over 1000 points omits the following post with 1770 points:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2555349

Anyone know why?

genieyclo• 15 years ago

There are several other high scoring posts that don't show up by that method, because it's meant as a filtering tool for stories on the frontpage and one page deeper. Obviously these stories tend to be far apart so don't see them all with that /over method, only recent ones that haven't fallen off the first two pages yet.

nhebb2• 15 years ago

And patrickthomas went from 0 to 3335 karma in a single post.

ChuckMcM• 15 years ago

Pretty cool, 724 days, no comments, one submission, 3346 karma. Probably not something work trying to avoid in a web based reputation system.

colinprince• 15 years ago

http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=2000

ComputerGuru• 15 years ago

If any man deserved this, Steve Jobs most certainly did.

binaryten2• 15 years ago

what a complete knob

binaryten2• 15 years ago

Only a complete idiot would say this. Wow :-(

romaniv• 15 years ago

However, there are plenty of people whose contribusions to humanity wastly exceed what Jobs did. Would they get this kind of coverage if deceased? I seriously doubt that.

antihero2• 15 years ago

It's annoying - I mean yes he made some excellent products and an arguably visionary ability to capitalise on consumers, but most of his products were hardly original - he just took existing ideas and made them more user friendly and pretty.

jessedhillon• 15 years ago

Has anyone else noticed the black band (actually a table row) at the top of HN? I only noticed it yesterday, so I'm assuming it's pg's way of signifying that HN is mourning the loss of Steve Jobs.

felipemnoa2• 15 years ago

Yes, it is.

Locke1689• 15 years ago

It appears when someone important to the community passes away.

mahyarm• 15 years ago

I thought PG put a filter on only Steve Jobs stories because of his death.

pg2• 15 years ago

No, it was organic.

gbog11• 15 years ago

And annoying. Did you consider adding a filter to increase diversity?

jwr• 15 years ago

I took a screenshot of HN yesterday. I felt this was a great tribute to Steve — demonstrates how many of our lives he touched and the respect he commands.

BobSacamano• 15 years ago

Here's my screen grab, 1:41 PM, 06-10-11, (UTC+09:30) http://i.imgur.com/boohg.png

MatthewB• 15 years ago

I still can't believe Steve Jobs is gone. I don't think I've ever felt this sad about someone I've never met.

I always thought I would meet Steve eventually, especially since I finally moved to Silicon Valley recently. He will always be my hero and an inspiration to me in every aspect of my life.

_4zly• 15 years ago

In every aspect, are you serious? You have to diversify your influences...

petercooper2• 15 years ago

I'm pretty sure MatthewB didn't say he had only one hero.

wuster2• 15 years ago

16-year Mac user here - I wouldn't go to the extent of saying Jobs changed my life. Apple devices influenced how I got my work done, which is non-trivial, but I won't idol worship him in an emotional manner. He's still only human just like the rest of us.

vanhoosear• 15 years ago

I can definitely say that he changed mine. My first WYSIWYG word processing experience was on an Apple //c (they loved those slashes instead of the Is for some reason), and I ended up in marketing and communications partly because Steve Jobs took that calligraphy class in college, and I loved the fonts I could play with...

hesdeadjim2• 15 years ago

So you can't feel sad for someone dying without it being idol worship? And what about those of us whose lives he directly changed, is it unfair for us to feel a greater sense of loss?

In fact, it is his humanity that I respect and mourn the most: his drive to better himself and the world around him, an uncompromising vision in the face of adversity, and an unwillingness to give up.

hesdeadjim2• 15 years ago

I feel the exact same way. This is the first time I've felt truly sad to see someone die who I did not know personally. I never had a chance to meet him, but I had always held out hope that maybe someday I would be able to simply tell him "Thanks" and shake his hand.

If it weren't for him and his team totally disrupting the phone market with a truly futuristic device, I wouldn't have discovered my passion for making games or be making a living doing so!

matthewlehner2• 15 years ago

This is good to see - I don't think any one person has had more influence on the way we use computers/technology than Steve did.

It felt good to know that someone with his vision also had the power to create and guide new technologies and inovations within many industries. Now that singular force is gone. Hopefully Apple, or the other major players are able to continue to innovate and not just add better specs and more features.

geoka93• 15 years ago

> I don't think any one person has had more influence on the way we use computers/technology than Steve did.

Just wondering, if I don't use macs, smartphones and tablets, do I still owe it to him for the way I use computers/technology?

rcthompson• 15 years ago

Yes. Any major operating system or computing device from the last decade or so (give or take a few decades) has been in stiff competition with the operating systems and computing devices that Apple produced under Steve Jobs, and they have all been strongly influenced by (modeled after?) those Apple products with which they competed. Even something as basic as his insistence that things should be easy to use forced everyone else to improve their products' usability, even change the way they think about designing software in order to make usability a priority, in order to catch up.

cwp• 15 years ago

Actually, I had been offline all afternoon, and only learned of it when I opened up HN. I was stunned by the top story, and it was good 3 or 4 minutes before I noticed that the entire front page was devoted to Steve. At that point I got something in my eye and had to close my laptop.

uniclaude• 15 years ago

Two things are very interesting to me here:

- This 100% Steve Jobs page was actually organically generated.

- Several members of the community took screen/snapshots yesterday when they discovered the frontpage like this.

Those things make me realize how like-minded can some of the members in this community be.

AndyKelley• 15 years ago

Here let me aid your statistics:

http://superjoesoftware.com/temp/hn-steve.png

santa_boy• 15 years ago

Not as well timed as you guys, but here is my attempt:

http://xeqtit.com/content/hn%E2%80%93imourn.php

alexholehouse• 15 years ago

Guilty - http://www.holehouse.org/thoughts/goodnight-mr-jobs/

raimondious2• 15 years ago

http://cl.ly/112v3A30012Y1I0h302f

potatolicious• 15 years ago

It's not just the HN crowd - I walked by the SF Apple Store today and the front windows were covered in post-it notes full of thoughts from passers by. I know we in the tech world followed his every little move, but it surprised me how much, well, regular people cared.

I've never seen this kind of reaction for the death of any famous person who isn't a politician/community leader.

n0on3• 15 years ago

"I've never seen this kind of reaction for the death of any famous person who isn't a [...] community leader." < Fact is, he was :) ..at least sort of..

bruth2• 15 years ago

http://twitpic.com/6w9f9e/full

bh42222• 15 years ago

I found out while playing Doodle or Die. All of a sudden a lot of the drawings were apple based. At first I thought it was trolling, and then I opened another tab to check google news...

bhickey• 15 years ago

My MacBook Air broke on Wednesday night, so I brought it in to the Apple Store in Providence. A few people had left flowers at the doorstep. Inside, however, it was business as usual.

robryan• 15 years ago

Yeah, I did to: http://s3.amazonaws.com/affclicks-static/hn_steve.png

barredo• 15 years ago

I took a Safari ".webarchive"

http://cl.ly/3m3g1p2r1T0x1S172V0q

> Those things make me realize how like-minded can some of the members in this community be.

Communities gather around like-minded people and like-minded people creates communities of shared interests.

singular2• 15 years ago

Yes, my thoughts exactly. I rushed to take one myself (forgive the blatant join) - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/140966/hn_jobs.png

hzay• 15 years ago

What's a blatant join?

bruth2• 15 years ago

Shot at 11:27 PM on Oct. 5 https://plus.google.com/106530954599911462020/posts/NeidwMuC...

antihero2• 15 years ago

That's scary, I did my own screenshot to whine about it on Facebook. I didn't realise that so many other people had done pretty much the same thing.

cambriar• 15 years ago

http://p.twimg.com/AbLpPwQCQAAu-tu.png:large

Like-minded indeed.

I remember at about 6:05PM there seemed to be a few threads about it, but when my eyes caught the first title...instant grief.

nhebb2• 15 years ago

I did a screen grab at ~10:00 PM PST. I never planned on posting it, but I felt it was the "where were you when you found out JFK / Elvis / etc. died" moment of the tech generation and wanted to capture it.

chj• 15 years ago

A hacker doesn't have to write code to be respected.

neetij• 15 years ago

Noticed the same thing and started adding to a small collection of tributes from various sites: http://gim.ie/bfmX

0ffw0rlder• 15 years ago

What is with the SJ worship on reddit/HN? Apple continues to make overpriced hardware (compare to T and W series thinkpads xD) which almost always sacrifices form for function. Want to put an esata/fibre/ port on your laptop? - only one MBP allows it. OS X is a toy os for people who don't want to run windows (excell/MSVS) or linux. Sure, put the iWhatever in the museum of modern art, but just about any business-clas laptop will run linux.

srl• 15 years ago

Just to say: my MBP runs linux (arch) well better than any of my friend's business-class laptops.

(Also, I think you meant to say "function for form".)

snippyhollow• 15 years ago

I did this snapshot (we see more clearly): http://i.imgur.com/pkT8z.png

chokma• 15 years ago

Hacker News: no other news on that day.

http://images.schedim.de/hacker_news_steve_jobs.png

(from Do 06 Okt 2011 09:15:01 CEST)

wazoox• 15 years ago

I don't actually care about Steve Jobs death, despite my MacBook, my PowerBook 520c and my Apple //c. I'd probably be sad if Woz passed away.

The only public figure death that really saddened me at the time was Miles Davis'. I remember that so vividly.

adrianwaj• 15 years ago

2 hours earlier http://hackerbra.in/steve.png

ck2• 15 years ago

I've made a filtered feed that removes most of those stories

http://feeds.feedburner.com/hacker-news-filtered

I'll delete it after the weekend to respect PG (after the news-cycle finally breaks).

gbog11• 15 years ago

What I would be looking for is a diversity enforcer.

petercooper2• 15 years ago

You can see every single hour at http://hackerslide.com/

wxl24life• 15 years ago

It's really great!

doc_larry• 15 years ago

Steve's death just underlines how real his Stanford commencent speech hits home. His life certainly had its ups and downs, but through it all he persevered and fought for that he felt was true and was worth it. Although his accomplishements went beyond what anyone would have possibly dreamed (aside from himself) there are so many people around us who are also heroes of the real world. We mourn today a great man and in a sense we hold hommage to all of those people who strive to make this world a better place. Rest in peace Steve, may God bless you and your family

shreex• 15 years ago

yet another screengrab 30/30: http://i.imgur.com/T3CxH.png

mike-cardwell• 15 years ago

I would like to see what happened to the traffic on this site yesterday. I spent considerably less time here than average because of the lack of tech news.

billjings• 15 years ago

Initially, it was slammed.

nec4b• 15 years ago

For a community that takes pride in being intelectual, this is pretty sad and bordeline to religius worship. The black band and a single thread where one could express his appreciation for the deceased would be respectful and enough.

skatenerd2• 15 years ago

"sup dog"

skatenerd2• 15 years ago

I thought it was legitimately worth pointing out that there is a popular post on hacker news that is about hacker news.

I apologize for inappropriately using a meme to make that point.

robjohnson• 15 years ago

This shows the incredible influence that Steve had on the tech community. Unlike others who have disrupted the world like him, we can at least be glad that he got to witness the incredible impact that he had.

morsch• 15 years ago

I took a screenshot of the Slashdot firehose (ie. the incoming/recent stories page, not the front page) when the news broke: http://morsch.soup.io/post/174107125/Steve-Jobs-Dead-At-56

afsgdhfj• 15 years ago

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/news/hardware/Steve-...

dlikhten• 15 years ago

I was actually worried it would not go away. Fortunately today is back-to-business minus a few posts.

cme• 15 years ago

The way it should be!

iqster• 15 years ago

Like many here, I've been feeling really down because of Steve's passing. At first, it was confusing ... I never even met the guy. Why am I grieving so much? Seeing all the posts on HN and FB, it is comforting to know it's not just me who never met him, and yet is profoundly sad at his passing. He was a personal hero to so many of us.

supjeff• 15 years ago

Leave the meta nonsense to reddit.

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