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Ask HN: What is the best thing you learnt or got out of Hacker News?
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#22This is as meta as it gets, but I learned what it sounds like when smart sounding, but closed minded people try to shut down an idea. Looking over all the old YC projects that ended up being wildly successful, but their HN threads were full of naysayers who are better at sounding smart on the internet than providing actual feedback. Learning to differentiate between that kind of poster and people who have genuine fee…
Yeah. Living in SF, where self-driving cars are a constant daily sight, I recently went back and read a HN thread from five years ago with comments like, “I work in the industry. There’s no way you’re going to be seeing them in 5-10 years.”
Someone should do a roundup of these kind of posts: the Dropbox announcement, etc
Re: Ask HN: What is the best thing you learnt or got out of Hacker News?
#23If you're always disagreeing with everyone about everything, first check (and if necessary install) the CO2 detectors in your primary living space. If symptoms persist, talk to a mental health professional -- even if you're in a locale that doesn't value such things, this tends to be surprisingly affordable. And, in the end, also surprisingly helpful.
Re: Ask HN: What is the best thing you learnt or got out of Hacker News?
#24That I could do a Ph.D. even though I am over 40. Then I went for it. No regrets.
Re: Ask HN: What is the best thing you learnt or got out of Hacker News?
#25For me, it's a few things (some of them also identified in other comments here)
* Keeping my finger on tech and its changes
* A tech community
* Off-the-wall things to read
* Ideas for side projects - e.g. implementing lisps interpreters
All of these have got more valuable now that I'm retired and not surrounded by tech peers
Re: Ask HN: What is the best thing you learnt or got out of Hacker News?
#26This is as meta as it gets, but I learned what it sounds like when smart sounding, but closed minded people try to shut down an idea. Looking over all the old YC projects that ended up being wildly successful, but their HN threads were full of naysayers who are better at sounding smart on the internet than providing actual feedback. Learning to differentiate between that kind of poster and people who have genuine fee…
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#27I learnt the power of frontend minimalism, in how it helps make websites fast and resilient :-)
Re: Ask HN: What is the best thing you learnt or got out of Hacker News?
#28This is as meta as it gets, but I learned what it sounds like when smart sounding, but closed minded people try to shut down an idea. Looking over all the old YC projects that ended up being wildly successful, but their HN threads were full of naysayers who are better at sounding smart on the internet than providing actual feedback. Learning to differentiate between that kind of poster and people who have genuine fee…
Yeah. Living in SF, where self-driving cars are a constant daily sight, I recently went back and read a HN thread from five years ago with comments like, “I work in the industry. There’s no way you’re going to be seeing them in 5-10 years.” Someone should do a roundup of these kind of posts: the Dropbox announcement, etc
The infamous FTP top answer on the Dropbox launch is what led me to open source a solution to the Dropbox problem [1] after spending a bit too much time on the drawing board trying to understand the limit of FTP and why we couldn't have a Dropbox solution based on FTP. From that reflection I then made it work with every possible file transfer protocol you could think of.
Re: Ask HN: What is the best thing you learnt or got out of Hacker News?
#29It provides me with a sense of community that I lack in my life. I am driven by technology but not a lot of other people in my life are interested in these things. It's often providing me with "restore faith in humanity" experiences when I see exchanges in the comments where the worst impulses of humanity are expressed, and someone will respond with an eloquent and well articulated rebuttal to the insanity that socie…
I second this. Being a farmer with a huge interest in electronics and programming, I don't get to hang around like-minded people (generally, I barely to get to hang with people that have a decent grasp of their mother tongue, thus I just work and listen to podcasts and some audiobooks).
The hn comment section and some of the blogs I read here make the tech world something tangible, rather than something only happening in some far away land.
Re: Ask HN: What is the best thing you learnt or got out of Hacker News?
#30This is as meta as it gets, but I learned what it sounds like when smart sounding, but closed minded people try to shut down an idea. Looking over all the old YC projects that ended up being wildly successful, but their HN threads were full of naysayers who are better at sounding smart on the internet than providing actual feedback. Learning to differentiate between that kind of poster and people who have genuine fee…
Yeah. Living in SF, where self-driving cars are a constant daily sight, I recently went back and read a HN thread from five years ago with comments like, “I work in the industry. There’s no way you’re going to be seeing them in 5-10 years.” Someone should do a roundup of these kind of posts: the Dropbox announcement, etc
There was a comment 10 years ago about Facebook's acquisition of Instagram comparing it to Google/Youtube which was especially notable because it asked readers to "check back in 2022".
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3818055)
> This is not going to be one of the best tech acquisitions of the next decade.
> Instagram is a photo service in a sea of other photo services.
The interesting thing to me was their comment wasn't 'wrong' per se, but just that their logic was founded on that false assessment ("photo service"). In fact, their assessment of the value/success in YouTube's acquisition could have been applied to Instagram (in that it let Facebook access a different type of image-based social sharing).