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Kuro5hin is Dead

posted by takyon on Tuesday May 03 2016, @09:00AM   
from the 死ぬ dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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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• Re:Slashdot post: "I have some of k5 archived" Re:Slashdot post: "I have some of k5 archived" (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 03 2016, @11:01AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 03 2016, @11:01AM (#340767)

  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.

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• Re:Slashdot post: "I have some of k5 archived" Re:Slashdot post: "I have some of k5 archived" (Score: 2) by bitstream on Tuesday May 03 2016, @06:09PM

  by bitstream (6144) on Tuesday May 03 2016, @06:09PM (#340961) Journal

  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?

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  • "We Are Morons a quick look at the Win2k source" "We Are Morons a quick look at the Win2k source" (Score: 2) by number6 on Tuesday May 03 2016, @08:01PM

    by number6 (1831) on Tuesday May 03 2016, @08:01PM (#341011) Journal

    We Are Morons a quick look at the Win2k source || kuro5hin.org (2004) -- Google cache of webpage [googleusercontent.com]

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    • Re:"We Are M$ a quick yuck at the Win2k filth" ;-) Re:"We Are M$ a quick yuck at the Win2k filth" ;-) (Score: 2) by bitstream on Tuesday May 03 2016, @08:17PM

      by bitstream (6144) on Tuesday May 03 2016, @08:17PM (#341018) Journal

      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

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      • ?intitle:|| kuro5hin.org? - Google Search (Score: 2) by number6 on Tuesday May 03 2016, @08:29PM

        by number6 (1831) on Tuesday May 03 2016, @08:29PM (#341024) Journal

        (for each result, click on the 'Cached' links)    ?intitle:|| kuro5hin.org? - Google Search   [google.com]

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