At the same time, they made it so non-gold members can also view their karma breakdown by subreddit, a feature that was previously gold-only.

I remember svbtle's rocky "launch" on HN. People were upset with the exclusivity, the fact that "kudos" couldn't be taken away, and someone actually made a clone of svbtle, called obtvse. The creator of svbtle definitely came across as a jerk. I think the representation of svbtle as a blogging platform hurt it overall, since when most people think blogging nowadays, they think of open platform, not something that takes pride in being closed and implicitly insults anyone not invited.

I have yet to be sold on the concept.

I was under the impression that temperature was a measurement of the movement of particles and, as such, a temperature below absolute zero was impossible by definition. The article didn't really clarify what a temperature below absolute zero entailed (or, in fact, how it was measured). Can anyone shed some light on either of these for me?

He's deprecating following tags, not their existence. It seems to me that mk intends for tags to be a way to discover users with similar interests, not just follow a topic by itself. That's what reddit is for.

There tends to be a lot of crossover between r/programming, HN, #programming, and metafilter's occasional programming articles. There aren't all that many tech articles to post in a given day and people may want the insight that another website's community can provide.

This is some impressively fast turnaround. Being able to hide posts sounds like it could be useful.

So what's in tomorrow's update? ;)

This is somewhat related to a suggestion I posted in the tag death thread, but I'd like a way to say, "Hey, hubski! I want a new person to follow that submits/comments/shares things with #tag!" And then hubski would do its magic and give you a suggested person to follow.

There are some ground rules that should be followed (in my opinion) for a ask* question to be decent:

OP: 1) Topic should be a question only. Your answer can go in the responses.

Others: 1) No puns 2) No joke responses 3) No top level responses that aren't direct answers to the questions.

This would obviously have to be followed on a user by user basis.

Note: Your mention @ mk failed because usernames are case sensitive. @MK@ (currently) does not work. It would have to be \@mk\@ (sans the backslashes).

I'm not sure if this is actually a good idea, but on signup you could give them the option to enter a few tags they're interested in and have it select X users that post in those tags to follow at startup to populate their feed.

Works for me. One of the things that bothered me was that it was hard to discover people with likeminded interests. Since we can now search #tags in the bar, I can look to see who is posting articles that interest me and just follow them instead of the tags (and discover some new things while I'm at it).

Tag search works great!

If you go to the big island in Hawai'i there are stringent anti-light pollution laws (due to the observatory) and the nights are beautiful. If you can get out there I highly recommend checking out the skies at night.

If you don't mind constructing the URL yourself you can just manually enter:

hubski.com/tag?id=<TAG NAME>

<TAG NAME> must be all lower case or it won't return anything. I brought up something slightly similar in my post over here.

I'm firmly in team jif and pizza most certainly cannot be cute.

I do begrudgingly respect people who pronounce it like gift. No respect for people who think pieces of pizza are cute, however.

At my workplace it's hotly contested. Unfortunately, I'm outnumbered.

Other hot topics are whether .gif should be pronounced like jif or gift sans the 't' and whether pizza can be cute.

Brownies are better without nuts.

I found the explanation of iff as used in the pdf somewhat confusing. It seemed more intuitive to me to think of it as an XNOR or it returns true if EITHER both inputs are true OR if both inputs are false.

I also think drawing down the truth tables for each condition was helpful but I still don't completely get it. That was a pretty damn hard math problem.

The book was based off an early short story that the author wrote, called "I am a Zombie filled with love". Unfortunately, the site that it was hosted on (the author's blog) seems to be down. If you can find it, it's a fun read.

I really enjoyed the Hobbit but I think it helps if you go into it realizing that it's a children book and that Tolkien hated writing action. I mean, he knocks out the protagonist later so that he doesn't have to write an action scene.

I wanted the Hobbit to be fun, and it was.

Definitely, although maybe for a different reason. I enjoy the segregation of my interests in different social networks. The less crossover there is, the better. Maybe paradoxically, I've found that I can't be truly open without being able to segregate parts of my social experience from one another. Hacker News is good for my tech discussion, Google+ for talking to a certain group of friends, Facebook for another, reddit for complaining about reddit, etc. Once you introduce another variable into the mix like, say, family or coworkers, what I say changes dramatically.

It isn't so much me censoring myself to appear more palatable to other groups insomuch as it is attempting to cultivate different personas with different people which, now that I'm typing it out, seems a bit duplicitous, but I think most people would agree that they act different with their family and their friends.

I am, however, going off on a bit of a tangent. I didn't sign up to Facebook in order to see which companies people liked. I signed up, well, because of peer pressure, but also because I wanted to be able to keep in touch with people I don't see every day. As Facebook trended more and more away from that, I've used Facebook less.

I like my online life to be able to be divided into discrete, modular chunks.

Reddit is far from dying a slow death. It's getting more users day by day. Some people may think that's a bad thing, but it's not going to kill the site. By all estimates it is getting more and more popular.

Digg died because of the new website design. Reddit was always referenced on digg and when the new version came out, there was a massive exodus because the users felt betrayed and sold out.

Now if we're talking about a community content site's culture, then reddit has certainly undergone a sea change in content since its inception. A trend away from articles towards images and other low effort content.

I do think it's a bit presumptuous to extol hubski and deride a redditor migration when you (and I!) are some of the people to have just signed up from reddit. In fact, right now my feed at least is filled with posts by people who made their accounts within the last 24 hours. I'd wait to see how hubski settles down before passing final judgment.