I don't think we have enough posts per day to merit splitting the site into different categories, and with search on the way, I'm not entirely sure it would be beneficial.

An interesting idea would be to add a mechanism to overemphasize/under emphasize posts based on keywords or tags, a multiplier you can set for the current points/rank of the post.

I don't agree. The stories that are at the front page here aren't the same that would get on the front page on reddit... beyond startup, we get programming, science and design stories, and I think those have to do with the new title "Hacker News".

Less content, but more focused will definately be more hellpful.

PG: I vote that we go back to ycombinator news and drop the hacker stuff. I would rather just focus on startup/business stuff. That's the reason I joined your news site in the first place.

I like the hacker stuff - focusing on startup/business doesn't provide me with enough variety.

I'd love to see an all-entrepreneurship version of the Reddit/YCombinator service. There are a lot of us Ycombinator outsiders reading this from a marketing/business management perspective who'd love to get more of that content.

Rand,

Great to see you here. I'm working on a "all startups, all the time" social news site as an extension to OnStartups.com

Stay tuned...

If someone here would like to be the community manager for the new site, drop me a line (I'd even be willing to pay a modest amount, in terms of compensating for your time).

Great to see you as well, Dharmesh, and please do ping me when you launch your new social site. I'd love to get the SEOmoz community involved.

Sounds about right. Startups are at most 10% of what a hacker is interested in, even one currently working on a startup.

Feature Request: Tags/Categories please...

With separate voting arrows for the categories?

So you can upvote as an interesting 'hacker' story or for start-up-ness?

Not sure if this would be practical for more than a few categories.

But I guess you aimed at something different anyway.

What I'm wondering is if it would be possible to use some kind of algorithm such as Bayesian where an individual could select the articles they like and the ones they don't so that the site would start to deliver more specific content.

Good idea. You're going to build it right? :P

Well, it happens that I also think that this could be an interesting approach to a social news website. It could also help us avoid the inevitable problem of large user bases and abuse from more vocal (annoying) minorities - such as Ron Paul supporters.

There is also one more problem that I'd think could be addressed: language. I'd like to see a website where the user could have links in any language that s/he can speak or read. When reddit was still interesting, half of its user base was non-american. I bet that more interesting people would hang around in reddit if they could also send links in other languages.

So, with that in mind, I started working on a side-project, and it is precisely what inovica is describing: a social news website that could use Bayesian filtering to score links for each user. Check it in http://news.communick.com. For lack of a better name, I'm calling it SmartNewz.

I just started, and it is only a side-project. The site, as it is, was done in a weekend. I hope I can also use this as a means to learn how to develop applications for facebook and OpenSocial. But those are only ideas.

The part that I believe is interesting is open sourcing the filter, as well as providing an API for those that want to implement their own filters.

So, if anyone is interested in such a service (or if you indirectly want to help disqus have more users), please, register at the website, check the filter project repository at http://code.google.com/p/smartnewz, or the trac wiki for more information, in http://trac.communick.com/news.

Sounds interesting. Please drop me a line to talk about the filter concept further. My email is on my profile. I'm also interested in exploring the idea of porting this type of applications to Facebook, and therefore I'm arranging a weekend event to get a lot of developers together in once place to rapidly build Facebook Apps and learn from each other.