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HackerNews(ycomb) is a veritable gold mine but I find the community to be a bit caustic at times.
There is a HackerNews mirror on Lemmy here that I like but not too many people comment. If I saw more activity I'd probably comment more.
I find the same can be true around here too, though.
But HN is also mostly tech biz.
I really don't find that to be true. I see lots of toy implementations, general philosophical discussions, hell even just man pages.
That’s just not correct.
17/30 articles are not business related at all (ie “A genetically modified bacterium that outcompetes bacteria causing tooth decay”, “How many hobbits? A demographic analysis of Middle Earth”, “Goodbye, clean code”, “Show HN: Homebrew 16-bit CPU…”)
2 posts for finding jobs
1 post about a teardown of the Fairphone and assessing its repairability, which does mention a company but isn’t that much about business
Wayyyyy too many libertarians on hacker news who have experienced a lot of personal success in their life and have transformed that success into an utter lack of intellectual maturity or ability to empathize with others less fortunate than them.
Good info, but wow I have read enough hacker news that I have almost zero interest in talking to tech people in real life at this point, they can be so aggressively naive and are always focused on incredibly narrow visions of the future that as a rule don’t center humans as the most valuable part of society/economy. If aliens came to earth and offered them a new algorithm in exchange for enslaving all of the planet, they would shrug their shoulders and say “We can’t stand in the way of progress, I might as well do it, somebody else will if I don’t!”. As hypothetical of a conjecture as that is I really don’t think it is hyperbole.
Good info though and fun to troll libertarians if you are into that kink.
Mind sharing?