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Facebook closed at $27, taking a pretty big hit. I'd like you all to think like Steve Jobs and say what you'd think his suggestion would be to Facebook about what they've done with their IPO and how to fix the situation. What would he ask them to change about the way the company operates to create value for it's new stock holders?

Some time ago, I read/imagined a post about how Hacker News is not a news portal, but a discussion forum. By posting here, people encourage healthy discussion about those topics.

I feel that HN is loosing that focus because a lot of people are using it as a replacement for Google Reader. For example, today, Amazon acquired Kiva. On the Internet, there are a lot of sources that will post this news. It'll flow from top of the line news blogs (TC and GigaOm) to people who simply reblog stuff to gain traction on their blogs.

On HN, within a span of a few minutes, two people posted the same topic, one a report from ZDNet and the other from TC (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3726164 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3726172)

This is counterproductive. Both posters got a good number of points for posting those items, but HN is not a numbers game. Your value is from your comments and not how many items your copy paste from the Internet.

To that end, I propose that HN should implement a technique similar to StackOverflow where as you type in your topic or attach the link, the system searches for similar items and hints at those to alert the poster that they're just wasting their time. If they still insist on posting, HN stalwarts who have negative voting rights should exercise them.

Now here's the irony - Someone would probably already have proposed this exact method on HN, but since there's no easy search or StackOverflow style hinting, I have no way of knowing about it...

(n.b. A lot of people will say that that tech will need a major overhaul for HN, which in it's simple form cannot support such searches and we don't want to upgrade. Why not? Some extra functionality never hurt anyone :) )

HN, I just thought of what Apple's tag line will be for the Siri enabled iTV - "Finally, someone you can talk to about your TV"

PG,

I posted this --> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3484944

Without realizing that I should have put the tag of Ask PG. I haven't lost my password, just haven't been able to login from the get go.

Please help!! Thanks!

Hey Admins,

I made a user with the username - nitinkhanna and a password that I'm pretty sure of.

But instantly, I was unable to login and the error I kept getting is "Bad Login."

I did not put my email in with the login (as far as I remember, if I did, just send me my password please!) and so, I'm at a loss as to how to recover my username (I really prefer that one than this current one).

I even tried to join that nitinkhanna username with my Google ID, but heck, that didn't work out at all, same problem of Bad login.

Thanks for your help and looking forward to posting and reading some great stuff on HN!

Nitin Khanna