On: What 4chan thinks of HN

[Havoc]

They forgot the billion *.js posts - with seemingly arbitrary nouns selected as names.

Or the ridiculous intentional mispellings in names...somehow skipping all the vowels & resemble some vaguely phonetic spelling. Twitter > twtr etc.

[rblatz → Havoc]

You mean stock ticker symbols?

[Havoc → rblatz]

No the names / urls. See here (and the comments on that article):

http://valleywag.gawker.com/silicon-valleys-stupid-name-prob...