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Re: Ask HN: What is the best thing you learnt or got out of Hacker News?

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Post by dontcontactme »

PreInternet01 wrote: post #23

If 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.

my friend, CO2 is a natural part of the atmosphere and is emitted from your mouth with every breath you take. Carbon monoxide (CO) is the dangerous gas that you are thinking of.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best thing you learnt or got out of Hacker News?

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Post by NicoJuicy »

raldi wrote: post #22
bsamuels wrote: post #8

This 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

Do you see them in bad weather?

It's not about the 99% where it works.

It's about the 1% where it loses the info from it's sensors and fails.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best thing you learnt or got out of Hacker News?

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Post by TRiG_Ireland »

raldi wrote: post #22
bsamuels wrote: post #8

This 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

Self-driving cars are still a terrible idea; and there's a reason why SF has famously terrible urban design.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best thing you learnt or got out of Hacker News?

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Post by narag »

paulcole wrote: post #7

Helped me get over the belief that people in tech must be super smart. Turns out they’re just as dumb as the rest of us.

Sounds bad, but just change "dumb" for "naive" or "biased" and we agree.

To be more specific, it helps me identify the ways people gets behind some weird idea and maybe why. Same goes for the negativity that someone mentions in another comment, it's the same to me: unexpected reactions that say more about who reacts than about the criticized idea.

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Post by Oras »

1. Being up to date with science, news, and tech. HN never disappoint in seeing what's going on in many industries not just tech.

2. Sometimes, the comments are not actually related to the topic itself (just the title), but nevertheless, I find value reading different perspectives in the comments.

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Post by mattbrewsbytes »

bsamuels wrote: post #8

This 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…

Wildly successful is kinda vague and subjective. Successful as a business is one thing, mass market adoption is another thing, both can happen but are they both "wildly successful"?

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Post by nithayakumar »

bsamuels wrote: post #8

This 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…

I was going to come here and say exactly this at the risk of being flamed. Love seeing this at the top

Re: Ask HN: What is the best thing you learnt or got out of Hacker News?

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Post by spuz »

Within an hour of the Log4shell bug becoming public, I was able to inform our team and figure out how it impacted us. Yes we do have subscriptions to alerts from security services whose job it is to track this kind of thing but feeling like I can keep on top of the most critical security issues along with them feels quite valuable.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best thing you learnt or got out of Hacker News?

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Post by arbitrage »

TRiG_Ireland wrote: post #33
raldi wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Self-driving cars are still a terrible idea; and there's a reason why SF has famously terrible urban design.

> and there's a reason why SF has famously terrible urban design.

... which is?

Re: Ask HN: What is the best thing you learnt or got out of Hacker News?

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Post by phugoid »

HN is a spark plug that caused various forward motions and explosions in my life.

I learned about open source and Linux; in time that went from a new hobby to a change of direction in my career.

I learned about startups, and figured I should try since I'm also a genius who can build a great product. It took quite a bit of money and time lost to convince me otherwise.

I found out about the online CS Masters program at Georgia Tech and did that a few years ago, this led to moving countries and getting a job doing AI.

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