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Folks, it appears Kuro5hin is dead:
The site was founded by Rusty Foster in December 1999, having been inspired by Slashdot.[10] Kuro5hin's membership once numbered in the tens of thousands,[11] but its popularity declined significantly from its peak in the early 2000s.[13] On May 1st, 2016, the site was closed down permanently.
I didn't visit it. It seemed then like the bunker where the tinfoil hat brigade hung out. In the Slashdot days it served as the guardrail for conventional wisdom. But now that the tinfoil hat brigade has been entirely vindicated, and Kuro5hin is dead, it makes me a little sad. What are your favorite memories of Kuro5hin, and will we see its like again?
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(Score: 3, Informative) by number6 on Tuesday May 03 2016, @10:44AM
(https://idle.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9052853&cid=52026359)
I have some of k5 archived
by Anonymous Coward - 2 May 2016, 2:51AM - (#52026359)
I wrote a k5 screen scraper, and have 95% of k5 diaries, unfortunately I don't have any stories.
Date range for my archive is: 2001-1-4 to 2015-7-22
For a total of 161,942 diaries [semantic-db.org]
Here is a summary of what I have in my archive [kr5ddit.com].
Here are some tables showing which kurons had the highest number of posts over the lifetime of k5 [kr5ddit.com].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 03 2016, @11:01AM
The rise and fall of diaries over time:
$ sed -ne 's/.*, \([12][90][901][0-9]\) at.*/\1/p' full-k5-diary-index.txt | sort | uniq -c
2520 2000
15655 2001
35476 2002
31645 2003
13824 2004
11407 2005
11694 2006
9255 2007
7269 2008
5403 2009
4143 2010
3237 2011
3248 2012
2756 2013
2515 2014
1693 2015
That bit probably died because of farcebook and twatter taking over.
(Score: 2) by bitstream on Tuesday May 03 2016, @06:09PM
If the users could find farcebook and twatter a suitable replacement. Then maybe there weren't too much of out of the box thinkers there after all..
Btw, Anyone have some example (good) posts from the site?
(Score: 2) by number6 on Tuesday May 03 2016, @08:01PM
We Are Morons a quick look at the Win2k source || kuro5hin.org (2004) -- Google cache of webpage [googleusercontent.com]
(Score: 2) by bitstream on Tuesday May 03 2016, @08:17PM
I suspected Microsoft code to be shit. Now I don't have to doubt anymore.. ;-)
"IF YOU CHANGE TABS TO SPACES, YOU WILL BE KILLED!!!!!!! /../ DOING SO FUCKS THE BUILD PROCESS"
"The specific idiot in this case is Office95, which likes
// to free a random pointer when you start Word95 from a desktop
// shortcut."
Hilarious. ;-)
Good thing that piece stinking code don't touch any important systems here ;)
More tip on good Kuro5hin posts is appreciated.
Btw, I have seen some Unix driver source author complain about brain dead hardware design. Like throwing a DMA transfer destination with an non-deterministic offset of 0-64 kB. *gosh* I think it as Re..ek :p
(Score: 2) by number6 on Tuesday May 03 2016, @08:29PM
(for each result, click on the 'Cached' links) ?intitle:|| kuro5hin.org? - Google Search [google.com]
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday May 03 2016, @11:45AM
#4, our very own beloved MDC! :)
I went to k5 every once in a while to look around: i came, i saw, i saw a lot of bitching about MDC and not a whole lot else.
Maybe i missed something, but couldn't see enough there to look closer at what i may have been missing. SoylentNews is much better, IMHO
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---