The "thehackernews.com" domain is a spam site. If you have "show dead" enabled in your HN user profile, you can see that just about everything submitted to HN from that domain is '[dead]'.
The types and quality of stories on HN are like the tides; it regularly
varies. One of the goals for HN is to have a good, balanced mix of
interesting stories. Due to voting, populist stuff will surface, but HN
still has an appreciation for heavy-weight, time-intensive articles.
Some truly great stories get few, if any, comments. If a post requires
effort or specialized knowledge to even ask good questions, then there
isn't much discussion. This happens a lot when academic papers are
posted since reading a paper might require a multi-hour investment, but
even when there is little discussion, it's good to have heavy articles
submitted. They balance out the other stuff.
If you find something great-but-overlooked in the /newest queue, then
send an email to [email protected] asking for a repost request to be
sent to the original submitter. That's what I did with this article, but
Dan (dang) asked me to repost it myself. Neither 'ingve' nor I care who
gets the credit/karma, but a lot of people want great articles to get
attention on HN.
This was posted once before by HN user 'ingve' but didn't get much
attention [1]. Though the most recent and largest (39 pages) JFP paper,
"Systematic Abstraction of Abstract Machines", is probably the best
version to read, the earlier "Abstracting Abstract Machines" may also
be helpful. There's also a CACM highlight version of "Abstracting
Abstract Machines" that's only 8 pages. All of these papers are
available.
- "Systematic Abstraction of Abstract Machines" from JFP 2012 (39 pages)
>"Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important."
If you want feedback on your project or startup, then you are much
better off doing a "Show HN" post so it is listed under "show" in the
main top menu. The rules for doing a "Show HN" post are here:
If we're lucky, a moderator will notice and change the title of this
submission for you (i.e. turning it into a "Show HN" post).
The first thing I noticed when reading your site is this:
>"There are also multiple premium features users can access after
upgrading their account (a one-time fee of $10 Canadian dollars)"
A one-time fee does not seem reasonable or viable for a business. For
the long term sustainability of your startup, use an annual fee.
Also, I did not see links to either your privacy policy or your terms of
use. At least some people will be concerned about copyright issues on
their photos, and how/where/when your site is able to use or promote
them.
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