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It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news
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Re: It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news
#122Re: It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news
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I agree with your overall thrust, but I certainly wouldn't have picked those examples. The diet threads just make me roll my eyes and think "Californians will believe anything"! (Sorry California, I know you don't all fit the stereotype.)
I think California having the lowest Covid-19 rate in the nation has helped its reputation a lot. We’ve traditionally caught a lot of flack for woo woo crystal healing but it seems Texas and Florida are totally stealing our thunder these days.
One of the lowest. Not the lowest. And you can't infer too much about it without considering a lot of other stuff, like demographic composition.
Re: It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news
#124Adding tags/topics has been a constant requested workaround to allow some filtering since almost the begining of HN.
Never understood the rejection.
PS: I have always read that it opens mind to other subjects. When I have enough time I agree, but when very busy I would favor some filtering to save precious time.
Re: It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news
#125It is obvious to anyone who has been here for a while that this community is in decline, in the sense that it has less depth, less quirkiness, and less 'real' diversity of opinion (although dang does a good job of stemming the tide). The 'hivemind' has emerged here to squash contrasting positions. The funny thing is, no one thinks they are a part of this emergent 'hivemind' but the end result is the same.
I think it has more to do with discourse in general declining and HN isn’t immune but it explains why no one thinks they’re a part of it
Re: It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news
#126It's dominated by mainstream, intelligentsia-approved narratives.
It has homogenized a bit, but perhaps this is why more contrary opinions need to speak up. I find myself often reading an interesting exchange that ends in a squinty grey section of text, and I sit there for a moment, frustrated, and trying to figure out what the dissenters downvoting see that I don't. Perhaps more well-reasoned rebuttals would be what HN needs to bring some of the old flavor back.
Before you ignore me and pass on, I've been active here for enough years to remember when you could discuss just about anything and people almost gravitated to a contrarian opinion to figure out how someone could get such a different view. People now seem too quick to downvote with no comment, which in my opinion is a loss for anybody following up after that who is missing that context.
It is the conversational equivalent of the person who makes a forum question about an obscure bug that goes on for about 30 replies or so, and then at the end its just the intrepid OP showing up to say "thanks guys its fixed" and nobody has a clue what got fixed or how. To me, this is the laziest form of discourse, and I think it is worsened by people being too comfy in their peer groups and despite advocating for diversity, not valuing diversity of concepts and viewpoints.
Re: It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news
#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree with your overall thrust, but I certainly wouldn't have picked those examples. The diet threads just make me roll my eyes and think "Californians will believe anything"! (Sorry California, I know you don't all fit the stereotype.)
Have you had avocado toast? It’ll rock your world, seriously.
It'll also bankrupt you.
I feel (because it's a feeling) that HN stays good because it lacks images in the discussion area. The clean look, no adds, limited everything really proves the case that less is more.
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It's not 16 dollar a slice good. Let's be real here.
Find me a menu where it’s listed for $16/slice please. I want to try it.
https://www.cultivarsf.com/MENU/BRUNCH
at 15 and tax per slice, it's aight at best, and that's being generous.
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> Hackers have long been interested in politics/culture/public policy. Well, yes, but usually from an aesthetic perspective, rather than a moralistic one. E.g. bad laws and cronyism being seen as ugly hacks and misfeatures on what could be a beautiful and elegant system of law ; the cleverness of computer intrusion being more important than its consequences ; the Internet (Tor, cryptocurrency, whatever) "routing arou…
I mean there is and has been wide diversity in thought within the hacker community, so there's certainly people who view things only through asthetics. But I don't think that erases the presence of explicitly moral/ethical thoughts within the hacker community. The philosophical and political manifest in the hacker community in many forms: anarchic, communal, utopian, anti authority, anti centralization, pro equality…
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Re: It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news
#130It's PG's toy forum for the CEOs he's investing in. Of course it's dominated by business news.