Hacker News full of Erlang articles

http://erlanginside.com/hacker-news-full-of-erlang-articles-80

by pj • 17 years ago

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astine2• 17 years ago

This is old news. Why is it being posted, save for the couple of Erlang submissions at the top?

gregstoll• 17 years ago

I'm guessing the submitter is making a suggestion to deal with the _why/Zed Shaw articles.

icey2• 17 years ago

Yes it's the old "fixing the signal to noise ratio by adding lots of noise" gambit.

noodle• 17 years ago

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=775727

astine2• 17 years ago

I just hope that it doesn't become a weird meme, where submitting an Erlang article is the equivalent of expressing disapproval of the current trend in headlines.

"Oh no, people are submitting the same old Erlang articles, the current focus/glorybaiting must be getting annoying!"

jcl• 17 years ago

...which is silly. There were maybe three _why-related articles left on the front page -- now half the articles are Erlang.

inaka• 17 years ago

i somehow feel like hacker news is tail-recursive, and we've been unrolled by the compiler and are now back at the top of the loop.

jobu• 17 years ago

Hilarious. I was just scanning the headlines and thinking "WTF is up with all these Erlang articles?!" I'm trying to decide if posting this article is ironic or annoying.

calcnerd256• 17 years ago

Perhaps a different topic is appropriate this time. I wasn't here when we did Erlang the first time, but I'm assuming that those who were are now tired of it. I think (though I may be wrong) that I'd be more interested in seeing some clever brainf and other esolang entries.

potatolicious3• 17 years ago

I personally just want to see a return to more technical topics and less human-interest pieces - if I wanted those I'd turn on the 6 o'clock news.

I love reading random stuff on languages/tools I don't even use - it expands my breadth and is always fun. I've never written Erlang, but now I may give it a shot.

This is what HN is great for, let's keep it that way.

timr• 17 years ago

I do too, but right now a directory of Erlang-related articles is on the front page of HN, along with a niche-interest article about patching Erlang for a future version of OS X.

This was cute the first time, but now it's kind of inane.

ynniv• 17 years ago

I kind of like the erlang marker - as soon as I see a front page full of erlang, I know that people are fed up with whatever used to be there. Once I know that, I can easily help the cause if I agree.

ErrantX2• 17 years ago

The first time was pg's idea to get rid of the traffic spike that was killing the server and the content.

This time... it doesnt seem quite as vindicated reasoning.

You know: this could be a meme.... beware ppl :D

Xichekolas2• 17 years ago

If we treat the Erlang blitz as a rarely used cultural hammer, then it represents a community-building/defining meme.

If, as you say, we start whipping out Erlang articles on a monthly basis, it just turns into noise.

jmtame• 17 years ago

see what you started ejohn.org?

jeresig• 17 years ago

If the penalty to writing my blog post is a whole bunch of Erlang posts then I approve!

apotheon5• 17 years ago

I don't, so much, since this has gone from "Hacker News" to "Erlang News". There are already sites dedicated to Erlang.

Xichekolas2• 17 years ago

HN's immune system is Erlang it seems.

michaelneale• 17 years ago

yes this is the second time. I am guessing the _why posts tripped the trigger?

There had been rash of things I have flagged lately, so obviously enough people it was decided to "cleanse" things a bit.

allenbrunson• 17 years ago

i personally don't like _why, his writings, his code, his neuroses, or anything else about him. in the beginning i was willing to hold my tongue, because he was pseudo-dead, his fans were holding a eulogy of sorts, and that's hardly the time to be a critic.

the 15th or 20th submission on the front page was way too much, though. i am now officially supporting the backlash. bring on the erlang.

wglb• 17 years ago

So for those erlang-knowledgable, I understand that erlang is thread-scalable more than most anything. Are there other areas that erlang is similarly more scalable?

amohr• 17 years ago

Downvoted for not being about Erlang.

s-phi-nl• 17 years ago

Not again...

wozza4• 17 years ago

What is erlang?

wozza4• 17 years ago

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wozza4• 17 years ago

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wozza4• 17 years ago

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njharman• 17 years ago

I thought I'd hit the way back machine.

But really, even before why worship HN seemed really piss poor lately. Until few weeks ago I hadn't visited in long time and they types and quality of articles was way down from what I remember.

I've only ever been interested in about 20% of what's posted but recently I felt compelled to read only 1-2 postings a day. And the mix of articles that were uninteresting had shifted from Haskell this / circle jerk around my new startup to really poor fluff.

funny pics get 40 votes http://8bitb.us/why-well-never-hire-another-rockstar-program...

videos http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/avatar/hd/

mechanical_fish• 17 years ago

Interesting. In the absence of a downvoting feature, HN has evolved a mechanism for clearing unwanted articles off the homepage: Massively upvote an entire home page's worth of alternative articles. This is done by groups of unrelated people who concentrate their votes by using the word "Erlang" as a flag.

I'm not sure this will end well.

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