Hacker News Reader

Wherein, amongst much else, the author identifies Hacker News and four other sites as huge source of non-paying visitors. He speculates about the effect of just banning referrals from these sites.

It surprises me and my observer bias. I visited, read the book, and bought the fonts long ago. Used them as my go to web fonts quite a lot. Also a very nice book.

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Hacker News. I can’t say I understand the purpose of this site, founded by venture capitalist Paul Graham. I have two guesses. One is that it’s like Reddit for programmers, but they can claim that using it is work, not goofing off. My other guess, since it has no ads, is that it acts as Mr. Graham’s panopticon into his community of interest, as Cerebro does for Prof. Xavier. Anyhow, whatever bored programmers are spending their money on, it’s definitely not me.

lol That sounds about 90% right. In my experience most people don't even blink if they see a programmer with HN open.

I have managerial endorsement to read HN at work for the explicit purpose of keeping up with whatever trendy framework-of-the-week the devs are next likely to ask ops for.

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