What 4chan thinks of HN • Hacker News Board

Re: What 4chan thinks of HN

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Post by neya » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 4:27 AM UTC

Sadly, most of the things on there are true. We can try to deny it all we want, but most of the stuff that's there is true. The power of anonymity is that you get to voice honest opinions without tying it up with your identity and/or feeling responsible for it. Of course, this can be argued otherwise too, by citing some (bad) comments as example from that thread, but for the most part, what you see there are honest comments.

Some of my favorites:

>Why [popular technology] is [unexpected opinion]

>Why I have decided to stop using [ Tried and true web dev environment] and start using Meteor

>Why [obscure framework] is the next [industry standard framework].

>Ask HN: Why is nobody using [obscure niche technology from the 80s]?

>[Actually interesting topic] - 0 comments

>Can the NSA blow up your PC remotely?

>Why you shouldn't store your files locally, but in the cloud

>Why it's impossible to use PHP even though millions of people are doing great things with it

>Some blog post about scalability... blog crashes after posting link to HN and /r/programming

>Show /hn/: I ripped off an existing product and added Bootstrap to it

>Pay me $50 to teach you decades old vim features in screencast form

>Reasons Why A Basic Income Guarantee Might Just Be A Bad Idea

And this is the best:

>38090087

so the password is password?

Re: What 4chan thinks of HN

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Post by melling » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 4:27 AM UTC

daniel-cussen wrote: post #50

melling wrote: post #33

No mention of the TSA, Snowden, or how the United States made them sad today?

"Can the NSA blow up your PC remotely?"

The TSA... Careful, there might be another 4chan joke about confusing the NSA with the TSA.

Re: What 4chan thinks of HN

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Post by duairc » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 4:30 AM UTC

I'm actually really surprised they seem to think that the HN community is anti-sexist. Compared to 4chan, maybe, but from my experience it isn't at all.

Re: What 4chan thinks of HN

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Post by GhotiFish » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 4:32 AM UTC

hn_has_piqued wrote: post #56

GhotiFish wrote: post #46

4chan's commenting system is simultaneously more annoying, and more enjoyable to use. The backtrack style lets you follow conversations, but it doesn't become a nested nightmare. Backtracks also highlight comments of importance or significance. the Reddit/HN system is hunting the most valuable comments through democracy, but it throws that work out because of its visible tree structure. People can ride the top post.…

>Shame about the captcha. you were never on 4chan before captchas, were you?

I was. At least before that bot hit that copied a random file from someone's document folder and uploaded it along with another copy of the bot to 4chan.

That was hilarious.

I still have an archive of those files somewhere.

Re: What 4chan thinks of HN

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Post by moot » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 4:35 AM UTC

GhotiFish wrote: post #46

4chan's commenting system is simultaneously more annoying, and more enjoyable to use. The backtrack style lets you follow conversations, but it doesn't become a nested nightmare. Backtracks also highlight comments of importance or significance. the Reddit/HN system is hunting the most valuable comments through democracy, but it throws that work out because of its visible tree structure. People can ride the top post.…

I loathe nested comments and vastly prefer inline quote previews and backlinks.

Then again, I'm biased.

Re: What 4chan thinks of HN

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Post by necenzurat » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 4:36 AM UTC

Why PHP is bad

"Why PHP is bad" debunked

Ask HN: What about PHP?

203 votes - How I learned my 6 year old daughter how to do high algorithm trading in Haskell

1 hour later, 421 votes, Your children should be outside playing, not coding

Re: What 4chan thinks of HN

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Post by adamnemecek » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 4:38 AM UTC

vezzy-fnord wrote: post #58

1gor wrote: post #49

Relevant XKCD: http://dynamic.xkcd.com/random/comic/

That's not just an HN issue. It's a problem in any community where there is a significant ratio of self-professed geeks or the like.

I wonder if there is a relevant xkcd about this very issue.

Re: What 4chan thinks of HN

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Post by minimaxir » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 4:39 AM UTC

duairc wrote: post #63

I'm actually really surprised they seem to think that the HN community is anti-sexist. Compared to 4chan, maybe, but from my experience it isn't at all.

There have been a few incidents where discussions about gender issues have been very quickly flagged off the front page.

Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6495950

Re: What 4chan thinks of HN

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Post by Tzunamitom » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 4:39 AM UTC

The fact that this is front page on HN is a deliciously ironic recursive joke...

Re: What 4chan thinks of HN

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Post by hn_has_piqued » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 4:40 AM UTC

moot wrote: post #65

GhotiFish wrote: post #46

4chan's commenting system is simultaneously more annoying, and more enjoyable to use. The backtrack style lets you follow conversations, but it doesn't become a nested nightmare. Backtracks also highlight comments of importance or significance. the Reddit/HN system is hunting the most valuable comments through democracy, but it throws that work out because of its visible tree structure. People can ride the top post.…

I loathe nested comments and vastly prefer inline quote previews and backlinks. Then again, I'm biased.

>Then again, I'm biased.

That's an understatement.

But seriously, I agree with everything you stand for in regards to how internet discussion should work. Flat discussion is vastly superior, even when weighing the negatives