hn-search VS v

Sharing data with US Gov increasingly means delivering that data into the hands of the Whitehouse's top ally - Peter Thiel/Palantir

ref: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa...

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

Guys, I want to investigate this claim, but people keep making it without giving me any details to look into. If you give us a specific news item or date range, we can look at the data and see what was happening (we have access to internal and external tools that show where each story was ranked at different times).

Also: any time you know of an important story that you think should be on the front page, you can email us to let us know - [email protected]. We'll either address it or explain why we're doing something other than what you're asking for.

> Someone relying on HN as their primary news aggregator

We don't expect anyone to be doing this, unless they actively want to not know what is happening in the mainstream news. Hacker News is very explicitly meant to be for things other than the normal stories in the mainstream news. This has been in the guidelines forever:

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

Even still, we have had huge numbers of heavily upvoted/discussed front-page stories about DOGE, which is clear from looking at this list:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1745410493&dateRange=custom&...

Again I say, if there's a story that you think should be in that list that wasn't, please let us know about it and we can investigate or explain.

This is a very popular article that get submitted every now and then (read nearly every year).

Past:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Computational%20Complexity%20o...

Interestingly, [X has died] seems to be among some of the topmost upvoted posts of HN. (Based on https://hn.algolia.com/)

This HN post is seven days old but presented as if it was posted 9 hours ago. The déjà vu effect is disconcerting and an absolute mind fuck. Please stop doing this, ffs. The person who thought this would be a good idea is a madman.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Silicon%20Valley%20crosswalk%2...

I really like the Barcelona Superblocks model [1], but paying people to move closer to schools is also an option imho.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=barcelona+superblocks

Political interest and intellectual interest are not the same thing. HN is for the latter.

There is overlap, of course [1], but there is also a huge amount of political and social material which is not primarily about intellectual curiosity. Most of that is off topic on HN (as the site guidelines say), even though much of it is far more important—as you say—than nearly anything else on HN.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

We recently migrated from YAML CI to VSH as well:

https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/ci/linux_ci.vsh

Zig is also not the only language that has interesting compile-time features. V (Vlang)[1] and D (Dlang) (among others), has them too. It's kind of weird that this is promoted so much with Zig, as if other languages don't have a lot of this.

[1]: https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md#compile-t...

An integrated ORM with database migrations

What is quite interesting (after looking at their documentation), is that V lang[1] has all that is mentioned: `?`[2], `or`[2], sum types[4], and can return multiple values[5].

[1]: https://vlang.io/

[2]: https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md#optionres...

[3]: https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md#sum-types

[4]: https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md#returning...

Their site is clearly showing the language is in beta. The V documentation also states that autofree is WIP, and to use the GC instead. This isn't a corporate created language, but looks to be a true volunteer open source effort from people around the world.

Their community, in comparison to others, even has their discussions open and open threads for criticism[1]. These

[1]https://github.com/vlang/v/discussions/7610