Everyone's own square appears blue.

Thank you, panda. That was the joke.

probably, i had to use chrome

Pretentious

Possibly, although I guess it's trying to play off Ruby's Japanese connotations and the actual examples inside (slicing arrays containing peanut butter and jelly) are not particularly pretentious.

Edit: thanks zem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_koan Edit2: and thanks angrycoder, I didn't spot that, although the point still stands that peanut butter is not overly pretentious

I think you are trying too hard. The most obvious influence is "The Little Schemer", right down to the peanut butter and jelly references. It is even listed as an inspiration on website.

not really, the koan has been enthusiastically adopted by the hacker community long before ruby came on the scene. i think this is more a continuation of that than any reference to ruby's japanese roots.

There are tons of sites like reddit. Digg, delicious, Hacker News itself...it's not a good sign that Reddit needs to outsource its search to IndexTank, when literally every other site like it can handle search themselves.

What search does Hacker News do itself?

I don't think it's a bad sign at all. Good search is HARD, and plenty of companies outsource it.

This said from someone who was part of a search startup acquired specifically to power a larger site that couldn't do a good job themselves.

Whoops, forgot that HN doesn't have search. >.<

You know what you're talking about, so I'll agree that you're right, but the simple action of searching titles of submissions on Reddit didn't work. That makes it seem like that there's something wrong with their code or database setup. Reddit's source code is pretty disgusting.

Their problem, as I see it, was mainly that they were using Solr, which requires an inordinate amount of time to configure and maintain (time they didn't have), and also isn't good at handling frequent updates, like the up and down votes.

Yes, but according to the FAQ they're ranked like this:

"On the front page, by points divided by a power of the time since they were submitted. Comments in comment threads are ranked the same way."

Nice site, just added my blog. Only problem I see is that if it does keep growing and becomes popular, then people could add feeds of irrelevant blogs, and like most social news sites it would turn into a digg/reddit.

I am the curator, I check it every ten minutes (I am that addict) and believe me, I hate fud, payperpost and propaganda to death.

If I see one blog incurring in a fault, they're banned for life.

I tried to register http://deadpanic.com/blog/ , but apparently didn't make the cut. Any suggestions for improvement, or insight into the criteria you use?

Sure it did. I checked the logs and it is registered and ready to serve your posts as soon as you publish them.

Try harder.

Not sure I understand what you're saying. It sounds snarky, but that doesn't fit the HN modus operandi, so I'm hoping I missed something. :)

I think maybe he is impressed.