Kuro5hin
Kuro5hin is a community-run site where users submitted and discussed technology and culture stories, including programming, health, and travel pieces.
What HN says
HN commenters recall it fondly and link to its older articles, such as the introduction to the K language and the Windows source piece.
Stats for nerds
141HN people shared it
64linked in comments
1.4Kstory points
Sep 2021last shared
Top posts on HN
- 1RIP Kuro5hin10 people · 298 points · first shared 2007 · 270 comments on HN
- 2The greatest program ever written3 people · 141 points · first shared 2010 · 56 comments on HN
- 3We Are Morons: a quick look at the Win2k source (2004)10 people · 122 points · first shared 2009 · 48 comments on HN
- 4Prolog Introduction for Hackers2 people · 112 points · first shared 2009 · 22 comments on HN
- 5"Traditional methods for protecting community from..scale..are now manifestly unfeasible"7 people · 107 points · first shared 2009 · 22 comments on HN
- 6How I Learned French in One Year4 people · 102 points · first shared 2009 · 48 comments on HN
- 7A Coder in Courierland4 people · 83 points · first shared 2008 · 29 comments on HN
- 8How to game the U.S. higher-education system3 people · 81 points · first shared 2009 · 32 comments on HN
- 9GNU Screen: an introduction and beginner's tutorial1 person · 69 points · first shared 2010 · 42 comments on HN
- 10Politics-Oriented Software Development3 people · 49 points · first shared 2010 · 9 comments on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
- TornOct 2014
According to wikipedia's uncited 'performance characteristics' section of their page on K (programming language):
> The small size of the interpreter and compact syntax of the language makes it possible for K applications to fit entirely within the level 1 cache of the processor.
Sounds like the overhead's acceptable?
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Edit: the following page (2002) says
> Even though K is an interpreted language, the source code is somewhat compiled internally, but not into abstract machine code like Java or Python. The interpreter can be invoked interactively or non-interactively, and you can also compile a source file down to a binary file for product distribution, if you wish.
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/11/14/22741/791
- educatingSep 2013
Backstabbing happens everywhere, unfortunately. The main problem with MS was that it was too profit driven for too many years instead of trying to do what was best for the users. Making profit eventually has a direct correlation to providing consistent quality that is better than the next guy or more consistently better. It all comes back to happiness; customers are happier when they get what they expect (intuitive) and what the need (low bugs, fast), not what they want (shiny UI).
They had some really shitty code. http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/2/15/71552/7795
My fav:
private\ntos\w32\ntuser\client\nt6\user.h:
* The magnitude of this hack compares favorably with that of the national debt. - smacktowardFeb 2014
There's also Scoop (http://www.scoopdev.org/), which came out of a late '90s exodus of disgruntled Slashdotters to a new site, Kuro5hin (http://www.kuro5hin.org/). They needed their own Slash-alike to run the site, and Scoop was the result. It actually ended up making more of a splash in politics than in tech -- influential early political blog Daily Kos was built on Scoop, and this led many other political discussion sites of that time to adopt it as well. (DKos migrated off Scoop a couple of years ago.)
The quality of Scoop's code and the vibrancy of its development community can both be inferred from the fact that, in 2014, its FAQ warns you that it doesn't run well under Apache 2.
- FuturebotNov 2012
What's amazing to me that in the past 10 years, so much has changed with regard to the music industry (streaming radio, MP3s becoming ubiquitous at mainstream e-commerce sites, everyone with a music player/smartphone in their pocket, etc.) and yet how little has changed (lawsuits, the laws themselves, and the general insanity around the topic.) A glimpse into these same conversations from the previous era:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/6/21/73329/8778
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/7/31/205359/166
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/5/16/163447/493
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/6/21/215822/505
- aharrisonApr 2010
This story has been the source of many discussions between my girlfriend and I, and I heartily recommend it. While it can be a bit disturbing, I think that helps drive home the point (it is kuro5hin, after all.)
It also led to a number of very amusing jokes targeted at the author (localroger). My favorite being here:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2008/8/20/84039/4943
This [alarm clock] will be useful to me. I sometimes forget to feed the small girl chained in my basement. Serious writers need muses.
- jpirkolaMar 2009
Okay, thanks for your comments, I appreciate you took time to answer my question. I got really interested about http://Kuro5hin.org (thanks Thorax!) and may try that at some point, they seem to have editorial feedback system too. If I was planning to sell my article, I would have loved ErrantX comment, thanks!
I decided to publish the article at my own blog, even it doesn't fit in 100% there. I will post the link here tomorrow for your comments, the title will be: "IT giants back up open source 3D Web".