I’ve been saying for years that spite should be viewed as a primary metric for social media. The higher the volume of spite, the more harmful it is and the less useful it is. Hacker News is heading in the wrong direction.
> I truly hate what HN has become. It has all the expected comments about Musk, fascism, etc
> HN has turned into reddit. It's highly political with strong anti Israeli and anti USA views.
It's completely understandable to want to read about technical topics rather than ever-more coverage/condemnation of Israel's genocide. But when you start characterizing the existence of such discussion as "anti Israeli", or criticizing people for merely having the the temerity to discuss contemporary fascism, you've gone solidly into politics yourself.
So it seems you're being quite disingenuous with this comment - you do like politics, you just don't like people discussing quite obvious elephants in the room that disagree with your own political views.
So the question is: is it fine for SF to rebound and money to spent on a revolutionary tech, at the expense of human ingenuity and possibly our entire industry?
- Canada payment system - folding paper airplanes - Solar panels - Raspberry pi price increases - a bunch of show hns - how does malloc work
There are more AI posts that's for sure, but it's also not that bad? It's also heavily affecting the livelihood of many people here (for better and often worse), so it's reasonable that it would be prevalent.
There's always been grumpy engineers here, on stackoverflow, reddit, everywhere. Lots of grumpy engineers are also amazing engineers. There's newbies proud to show something, even though it's not really always that great, some people dunk, some people encourage etc.
I still like it here.
Turns out the clienteles of the two platforms aren’t so different after all. The only difference is what triggers them.
I'm hoping it's bots doing that, and not my fellow, because I don't like to think that my fellow humans are actually this full of hate.
But either way, contributing to HN has become rather unpleasant these days.
I understand younger generations are feeling very disaffected and hopeless. I feel for them. I don’t really have a solution for them and don’t have the power to change it so I’d rather tune it out. Yeah, that makes me a selfish jerk. Ok, cool.
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