The Macro

[rileywatkins]

Hacker News Highlights[0] is something I didn't even know I needed. There's some great content to be found here (including some insightful comments), but the sheer volume of content means I'm probably missing out on most of it.

[0] http://macro.ycombinator.com/articles/2015/11/hacker-news-hi...

[ihnorton]

Hacker Newsletter and HN Daily have filled this role for a while now for me. I read the highlights over lunch or on the train, and otherwise try to avoid HN during the day (heh, mostly).

http://www.hackernewsletter.com/ http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/

[minimaxir]

Granted, the browser-snapshot-of-comment may not be the best presentation technique, especially as HN layout causes the comment to clip at small browser widths.

A fix for this (without having to redesign HN) would be to create an embedable widget that takes in a HN comment ID and retrieves it from the HN API, then style the response so it matches the theme.

[staunch]

It's Upvoted for Hacker News. Heh.

[nicklovescode]

Would be great for someone to connect a browser plugin that somehow highlights exceptional comments that might be hidden. Maybe people > X,000 karma get to highlight one a day.

Ideally it would also highlight ones that were featured on The Macro

[jt2190]

  > the sheer volume of content means I'm probably missing 
  > out on most of it.

I guess I'm one of those old-timers who misses the days when the submissions were more focused on startups and less about government policy, macro economics, and whatever else. (I'm quite biased toward consuming information that is useful and actionable rather than merely interesting, so I realize that puts me at odds with the site's stated policy.)

(edit: phrasing)

[loyalelectron]

I'm Colleen, the editor of The Macro. Happy to answer any questions and hear feedback!

[wmeredith]

No questions. Although as UI Designer/Developer with 10 years experience under my belt, I have to say I'm in love with site's design. If the content matches in caliber, we're in for a treat.

Best of luck!

[d0m]

Looking forward to read great stories/articles from all partners.

That's something I wished I had the time for when I was in YC.. i.e. individually talking to each partners and learning about the previous startups and great stories they'd be willing to share. Hopefully we could read some of them on the Macro : )

[tptacek]

What's the best way to send you "best of HN"-type material?

Can you retroactively include 'tzs missile command comment? :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6228350

[zallarak]

Really impressed by the fast page loads and readability. This matters more than anything and they nailed it. I wish other publications thought like this.

[sotojuan]

It's amazing when websites that display text documents just use text and a bit of CSS :-)

[lukasb]

5.8 KB transferred

A+

[orbitur]

I'm getting a Chrome ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED on all of the "macro.ycombinator.com" links here. "ycombinator.com" works, however.

[kevin]

Looks like an issue with a redirect. Everything is at:

http://themacro.com

[allpratik]

yes, macro sub domain seems to be down.

[Jarred]

Same

[rrtwo]

http://yc-macro-redirect.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/index.ht...

This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below. <Error> <Code>AccessDenied</Code> <Message>Access Denied</Message> <RequestId>...</RequestId> <HostId> ... </HostId> </Error>

[kevindeasis]

Looks like someone forgot to add view permission for everyone.

[justplay]

use "cache:" in front of url in chrome. it will get the cache copy.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sourceid=chrome...

[sdegutis]

Great pro tip. Thanks!

[minimaxir]

Why isn't there a comments section in the articles? :P

I'm surprised here isn't a link to the analogous HN thread, at the least. (Akin to the implementation in Reddit's Upvoted)

Relatedly, there should be an official bot (like whoishiring) to auto-submit themacro.com links to HN anyways to avoid race conditions for Karma.

[loyalelectron]

It was difficult to decide how to handle comments and whether to have them at all, so we opted to just leave them out for now. I like both of those ideas -- adding in a link to an article's analogous HN thread, and the official submit bot.

[tedmiston]

If only there were a YC startup for that :) http://genius.it/themacro.com

[Maken]

HN is the comments section, I guess.

[mh-]

    ;; QUESTION SECTION:
    ;macro.ycombinator.com.		IN	A

    ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
    ycombinator.com.	831	IN	SOA	ns-225.awsdns-28.com. awsdns-hostmaster.amazon.com. 1 7200 900 1209600 86400

    ;; Query time: 60 msec

no A record here.

[jakozaur]

Y Combinator expands its media conglomerate:

1. Starts from books "Founders at works".

2. Startup School.

3. Hacker News.

4. Paul Graham essays.

5. Startup class.

6. Macro.

7. ???, but already excited

[TeMPOraL]

N+1. An image sharing serivce that is to HN what imgur is to Reddit. For posting screenshots of your startup's growth metrics.

[mbrock]

They might really tie together the fixpoint loop if they turn HN into some kind of post-StackOverflow type reputation forum for hackers and businesspeople.

Investors need reputable hunches, companies need insights and clever people, and commenters love to gain social karma status especially if it might land them better jobs or chances to talk with interesting/rich/powerful people.

Discussion is fundamental to the whole ecosystem. HN is a primitive weekend hack yet still pretty valuable.

[cryoshon]

Blogging platform to rival the other startup-y blog platforms out there.

[jimbobimbo]

Thank your for including RSS feed!

[refrigerator]

Cool idea. Little niggle though - the body font for articles etc. is a bit illegible. I think removing "webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased" and letting it default to "subpixel-antialiased" on the paragraph text makes it a lot better: http://imgur.com/sVPPPwK (before/after comparison).

[ooshma]

Ooshma here. Loving the new website. Was a crazy experience to open up with Colleen on the inaugural Q&A. Thanks Colleen for an incredible interview, and congrats Colleen, Kevin, and YC on a successful launch!

[Walkman]

I'm getting ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED error. Is it just me?

[urs2102]

Great name! I'm wondering if this will be like Reddit's Upvoted trying to surface interesting content from Hacker News, or if this will be focused on allowing submissions and collecting ideas to distribute as a publication? Looking forward to seeing what comes out of it.

[loyalelectron]

I'm Colleen, the editor of The Macro. Thank you!

It's more focused on the latter, but there is a "Hacker News Highlights" section that we'll probably update semi-regularly.

[cheetos]

This is wonderful. Looking forward to reading this in the future.

One suggestion to improve readability: use text-align: left instead of text-align: justify on the body text.

[TeMPOraL]

Bug report: URLs are broken in the articles - they append to the article's address. See e.g. [0].

EDIT: I've been seeing a steady increase of this particular bug on the Internet, usually in blog and news articles. I wonder if this isn't a direct consequence of browser vendors removing protocol from the address bar? I.e. people just copy-paste a part of an address and don't notice that the browser didn't append the protocol part.

[0] - http://macro.ycombinator.com/articles/2015/11/science-startu...

[kevin]

Oops. Fixing now. thanks for letting us know!

[ericd]

Mmmm so fast. The most important feature of a good site, outside of good content, IMO. Nice work.

[jacquesm]

Strange use of a 'colofon', normally it lists information about the publisher rather than just the fonts used to make the publication.

[applecore]

Historically, the term colophon was also used to indicate the brief statement at the end of a book with details about how it was printed.

[GavinMcG]

Historically, you're right, but it strikes me that I haven't read a book in the last ten years whose labeled colophon didn't focus on typesetting. Of course, all the publication information is in the front matter, just not labeled in the same way.

[fascinated]

Had to read like 3x to realize it wasn't Marco's new project

[edent]

Could you please get https support?

macro.ycombinator.com uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is only valid for *.cloudfront.net

Thanks :-)