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<![endif] YC Research Subscribe About Apply header section ends header bg section ends By Anu Hariharan Simple Share Buttons Plus (v1.2.1) simplesharebuttons.com/plus Facebook Twitter Linkedin China Essay October 12, 2017 Special contributions from Luke Pryor and Brad Lightcap . Disclosure: I’m a personal investor in Toutiao. Using Machine and Deep Learning to Create and Serve Content, China’s Toutiao Created a Product with Engagement Similar to that of Social Networks – All without a Social Graph Toutiao, one of the flagship products of Bytedance*, may be the largest app you’ve never heard of–it’s like every news feed you read, YouTube, and TechMeme in one. Over 120M people in China use it each day. Yet what’s most interesting about Toutiao isn’t that people consume such varied content all in one place… it’s how Toutiao serves it up. Wit...

Y Combinator Posthaven « Back to blog New Hacker News Guideline by Sam Altman The HN team members are some of the most thoughtful people about online communities I’ve ever met. So I’m always excited when they have a new idea to try. This idea is simple. We’re updating the guidelines to add: "Avoid gratuitous negativity." Critical thinking is good; shallow cynicism, on the other hand, adds nothing of value to the community. It is unpleasant to read and detracts from actual work. If you have something important but negative to say, that's fine, but say it in a respectful way. Negativity isn't the problem--gratuitous negativity is. By that we mean negativity that adds nothing of substance to a comment. This includes all forms of meanness. Sharp readers may point out that the HN guidelines have always excluded those things. That's true. But it's still enough of a...

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