The Times has had a dedicated Science section for as long as I can remember (going back at least to the 80's), even pre-dating the existence of its Sports section by a decade or more. And it's well-known for being on top of business news and current events. So it just seems natural that its articles align with the interests of many in the HN crowd.
Over the last ten years, especially the most recent five, the NYT has done a lot of leading-edge things in the arenas of technology, transparency, and disclosure. It seems to be more and more a tech-friendly publication, in a good way. (See also: The Guardian.)
It's always done the hard data mining, but more frequently it's showing people how things are done behind the scenes, and done some very interesting Apple-quality experiments in presenting its articles online.
And if you're into design, the printed version of the Sunday Times is full of different interesting delights each week.
/Not an employee, just a print/online subscriber.
This is a post on the blog that the NYT tech and design teams use to talk about their work.
NY Times has a long history of fostering technical innovation. I believe the D3 project originally started as a library at the NY Times for powering their interactive graphics.
Whether or not they use a Slack bot for it, I bet some NYT folks lurk or even participate here on HN.
Some people seem to get that it's happening, but I think very few know the extent.
The other reason NYT links appear often is because there just aren't that many outlets doing journalism (and followup articles) on areas that are of interest to HN's audience.
ReCaptcha said that it was trivial to handle the increased traffic and that it was not only auto-filtered out but also a drop in the bucket.
Everyone always thinks they're hot shit. But the world is a big place.
They aren't playing a "game". They are using their power as the establishment media to force tech companies to serve nytimes' ( and the elite's ) interests.
As the nytimes and other "authoritative" sources get special treatment online, it's going to crush local news and smaller news.
Funny how a few years ago, it was local news and smaller news upstarts ( vice, vox, huffpo, etc ) dominating online and "authoritative" sources struggling to compete. Why compete when you can change the rules to favor yourself. The NYT isn't playing a strong grassroots/AstroTurf/social media game. They tried for the past 15 years and they failed. So they decided to change the rules in their favor. Why compete when you can cheat?
Also, it was pressure from the NYT and other authoritative sources that forced reddit to start censoring. It was NYT and other authoritative sources that forced twitter to censor criticism of privileged journalists. The push for censorship and control online has been spearheaded by the elitists at the "authoritative" source companies.
When I hear this, I think of the equivalent of large beer distributors trying to push retailers to not have tap handles of independent breweries. Or big chip companies paying for shelf space and also to dictate the placement of their competitors. I'm wondering how this works in the news space.
And I think it's worked personally, and they've brought some great stories to light as of late.
Plus, as a New Yorker, I enjoy the New York section, and probably have some sense of pride in having such an established and premier news outlet so close.
Of course if they were using GCE, GKE, or any other way to deploy compute they'd be fine. In this case, because they're using GAE, they have limited language support without doing lots of (to them) complex stuff.
It's the right decision to port here.
> When I looked at the code, I realized I was not going to be able to reuse anything because it was written in Perl. My plan was to rely on many of Google’s managed services, which don’t support Perl.
I didn't know Google did shared hosting these days (like, PHP or whatever they do support, I knew about VPSes and hosted databases).
There's some strong editorializing in this post's title.
To Track Reddit's Take on NYT Articles, We Built a Slack Bot
How about: {We/NYTimes} Built a Slack Bot to Track Reddit's Take on NYT Articles
I wonder how viable this might be as a service?
Side note: The current title ("NYT Tracks Reddit Conversations Around nytimes.com Content") is quite editorialized, and somewhat misleading.
[0] https://twitter.com/etorreborre/status/1126921902386184195?s...
Also hello NYT slack!
