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The phrase "HN/Reddit" is weird by itself. This place feels so different from Reddit.
HN is like what Reddit used to be. Heavy emphasis on news, technology. Usually some interesting debate in the comments when they were added. Found some screenshots from the early years: https://www.reddit.com/r/historyofreddit/comments/q1zks/redd...
No leetcode, no Bay Area, no FAANG.
Just people writing the code responsible for our banking, travel, supermarkets and many other systems which underpin our society.
>And that’s fine, we’re all amateurs, and sometimes we can be wrong. I'm not an amateur. Or if I am than everyone is too since I have written software for project that would kill tens of thousands if it fails. Other than that the vocal minority was always my opinion on Rust. A small core of true believers who decided that convincing people they should change the world is worth more than actually doing any work in Rus…
The fools over at Reddit call some things "adulting", because the idea of growing out of childhood is so foreign to them that they'd rather make it childish too. It's the same basic disease.
I may belong to that silent majority. I have learnt a lot from the discussions here in HN and other sites, but I rarely participate on them. This post made me think about being a little more active because, sincerely, most of the times it is just laziness what prevents me from commenting anything. In fact, this is my first comment here in HN. Little by little.
That's why there are places on the internet (like here) where, usually, I don't find the usual online fluff content.
> The “silent majority” was used by President Richard Nixon during his presidency and his campaign against the Vietnam war. He spoke to the people who were not actively voicing their opinions and who were overshadowed by the vocal few who were supporting the war. This is a shocking misunderstanding of history. The “silent majority” Nixon spoke of were folks opposed to anti-war protests . Nixon intentionally prolonged…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_majority#:~:text=The%20...
> There also seems to be an assumption on HN/Reddit that vocal activity on the internet, in any form — be that videos, blogging, podcasts, etc. — is proportional to activity behind the screen. Personally, I dislike this attitude. I think the internet is a good signal for what will be in the streets in 2-4 years time unabated. The attitude OP reflects is one that was valid in the 90s and early 2000s, but not today.