If you're not a developer, what brings you back to HN? Why do you read this? What value do you find? How did you find HN in the first place?
Please identify what you do as well, thanks!
Ask HN: Non-developers: What brings you to HN?
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Re: Ask HN: Non-developers: What brings you to HN?
#2I work in Fraud Analytics. I would call myself a failed data scientist- it was during those days (2 years ago) that I discovered HN. At first, I used HN strictly for job searching on the "Who's Hiring?" posts.
Today, I continue to browse HN on a daily basis because I derive value from the comments section of contentious articles. I am pretty weak at Debates, and I think reading up on stances from well informed parties, without picking sides is useful
Re: Ask HN: Non-developers: What brings you to HN?
#3There are intelligent people here and I have a general interest in technology and society. I whished there was a filter for all articles that are not about programming. It would easily make HN my favourite news aggregator (if it isn't already, I just need to skim a lot more).
The only thing I might criticise about the folks here is some openes for a broader sense of humor :P and folks thinking tech can solve any problem and is the holy grail (this might be especially true for tech in their department).
In general the comments are worth a lot though. So much easier to weed out obvious bogus articles and great for finding further thoughts on things.
Re: Ask HN: Non-developers: What brings you to HN?
#4Producer at a game development company. I love tech. I love business. I come across a lot of content I care about despite my lack of programming ability/knowledge.
I love HN for its general disdain for trolling & fluff. People are generally really respectful of each other around here too!
Re: Ask HN: Non-developers: What brings you to HN?
#5There are intelligent people here and I have a general interest in technology and society. I whished there was a filter for all articles that are not about programming. It would easily make HN my favourite news aggregator (if it isn't already, I just need to skim a lot more). The only thing I might criticise about the folks here is some openes for a broader sense of humor :P and folks thinking tech can solve any prob…
As a data analyst, I find myself coming here for the interesting articles and comments too. I agree that a filter for non-programming articles would be hugely beneficial for those people in the community that do not program or those that are coming here to take a break from their general work schedule.
Re: Ask HN: Non-developers: What brings you to HN?
#6Producer at a game development company. I love tech. I love business. I come across a lot of content I care about despite my lack of programming ability/knowledge. I love HN for its general disdain for trolling & fluff. People are generally really respectful of each other around here too!
Very cool! Have you found any other online communities that share that respect and lack-of-trolling?
Re: Ask HN: Non-developers: What brings you to HN?
#7There are intelligent people here and I have a general interest in technology and society. I whished there was a filter for all articles that are not about programming. It would easily make HN my favourite news aggregator (if it isn't already, I just need to skim a lot more). The only thing I might criticise about the folks here is some openes for a broader sense of humor :P and folks thinking tech can solve any prob…
You can make one of those by programming :) Jk jk, I don't even know how to do that myself. I am a very novice programmerbut mostly - 3D artist who comes here for these same reasons. Good comment threads are extremely rare these days
Re: Ask HN: Non-developers: What brings you to HN?
#8There are intelligent people here and I have a general interest in technology and society. I whished there was a filter for all articles that are not about programming. It would easily make HN my favourite news aggregator (if it isn't already, I just need to skim a lot more). The only thing I might criticise about the folks here is some openes for a broader sense of humor :P and folks thinking tech can solve any prob…
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Re: Ask HN: Non-developers: What brings you to HN?
#9Producer at a game development company. I love tech. I love business. I come across a lot of content I care about despite my lack of programming ability/knowledge. I love HN for its general disdain for trolling & fluff. People are generally really respectful of each other around here too!
Very cool! Have you found any other online communities that share that respect and lack-of-trolling?
also curious
Re: Ask HN: Non-developers: What brings you to HN?
#10I work as an economist at my country's ministry of finance. Since my daily job is to write studies and reports about IT, HN is quite useful to keep in touch with what's happening. I like as well when people submit content about other topics, and I think I learned many things here unrelated to tech.
Otherwise, I think the community here is great, and I really enjoy reading the comments and analysis of my fellow readers!