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Ask HN: Does reading HN make you happy?
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Re: Ask HN: Does reading HN make you happy?
#22I used to see posts that I disagreed with that I still upvoted because they made me think new things. That happened often - say, multiple times a week.
It's been a long time since I saw something like that. There's far more yelling, far more people who seem to be here not to think, not to discuss, but only to argue and push an agenda. Far more people that simply Will. Not. Listen. no matter how thoughtful a point is being made in reply.
HN lost something - something that was really sweet while it was here.
Re: Ask HN: Does reading HN make you happy?
#23Yes, it genuinely does make me happy, every week I find several things that make me smarter.
Is the the only social network that is not enshittified or dominated by inane algorithmic slop.
The LLM arguments are boring but exist literally everywhere online discussing technology
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#24hn: you can close the tab but you can never leave. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BciS5krYL80&t=260s
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#25I'm finding it frustrating. I want to block hackernews but a lot of good discussion in searches for tech end up here. So i'm not sure how to square that. I should probably just block it and then use an LLM to ask 'what would HN say?'
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#26No, but unfortunately I'm addicted to dopamine hits and HN is the most "organic" one, compared to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, you get the idea. HN is the one makes me the least depressed.
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#27The most shocking thing about HN is how polite and and reasonable the people on here are compared to the other places I visit on the web. Reasonable good faith debates are not normal on the internet! I guess we have the moderators to thank for this.
Overall IQ of the crowd also helps.
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#28The majority of HN participants are now, not founders themselves. Founders have to focus on signal over noise. People who are not founders focus on... whatever.
It's called Hacker News, not Founder News. It's right there in the title. Also, many of these "founders" are noise for LinkedIn . Anyone in their pajamas can start a single person LLC out of their bedroom and call themselves a "founder". Heck most don't even do that step anymore. I'm more interested with what an experienced grey beard has to say than some 20 something "founder" of some terrible, half-baked idea that was generated via an LLM.
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#29Yes, and I enjoy the LLM debates. There's the economic-political-cultural angle, and there's the philosophical and scientific angle, it's all very interesting. Certainly we go round in circles a lot, but I'm always tensely waiting for something new to happen, it feels like history unfolding. Nothing wrong with argument, don't stress.
Re: Ask HN: Does reading HN make you happy?
#30The most shocking thing about HN is how polite and and reasonable the people on here are compared to the other places I visit on the web. Reasonable good faith debates are not normal on the internet! I guess we have the moderators to thank for this.
Overall IQ of the crowd also helps.
And the ethos of the founder even if he's moved on to Xitter.