Ask HN: What makes you keep coming back to Hacker News?

5•FerkiHN•4h ago

I've been active on GitHub and tried sharing my work on Twitter, but it often felt like shouting into the void. Memes get likes — but meaningful tools often don’t reach anyone.

Then I rediscovered Hacker News. Even with a new account and a small project, the feedback was real. People cared, engaged, and it felt like being heard — not scrolled past.

I realized that HN is more than a dev forum. It’s like a daily newspaper of thoughts and discoveries. Some users share research, others ask life questions, some post side projects — and it all fits.

> After 18 years, HN didn’t change its design — just evolved with its mind. Twitter is for memes. Hacker News is for thinking.

What keeps you coming back to HN every day?

Comments

alganet•4h ago

I have reasons to believe its logs will endure for a long time.

jasonthorsness•4h ago

You can download your own copy as well, so like Wikipedia the existing content will never be lost even if the main site for some reason goes offline.

alganet•4h ago

Cool!

I have no use for a copy of it though. I'm estabilishing communication with future humans, using it as a time capsule.

theGeatZhopa•4h ago

My addiction to news & HN fullfillment of my needings. In contrast to Google's news and other aggregators.

The other thing, it's what interests me the most. Technical things. Superb.

Bender•4h ago

What keeps you coming back to HN every day?

HN is one of the places I can see a number of news stories in one place. It's nice to both be able to submit stories and also not have to administer the website. HN has been a 10 year vacation from running a similar site that I will not name. Being an end-user is relaxing and nearly care-free. Watching someone else run this site is therapeutic and nearly cathartic. I compare it to watching sped-up videos of people landscaping with heavy equipment. Running something like this 10 years ago was an absolute shit-show so I can only imagine how things have devolved which gives me a tremendous amount of respect for team dang.

jasonthorsness•4h ago

It remains unpolluted by weird corporate promotions and influence (except the YC ones which are understandable and clearly marked).

It doesn't tailor a "feed" per user, so you know that everyone is seeing the same view of things.

It's very popular and has high engagement; you know stories and comments here matter in the industry.

bell-cot•4h ago

The excellent Quality/Quantity ratio.

sexyman48•1h ago

Only place I can find girls to talk to.

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