Indeed, many of the posts in Hacker news are not related to hacking in any way. How about to call it Hipster News?
Where are the hacker news on Hacker news?
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#32It's all about startups and "Investors" and VCs and all kinds of stuff (which IMHO kinda sucks).
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#33I've been reading this site for over four years now and it was never good, maybe with the exception of the odd Erlang day.
>I've been reading this site for over four years now and it was never good...
Yet it was good enough to keep you coming back for four years?
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#34I've been reading this site for over four years now and it was never good, maybe with the exception of the odd Erlang day.
Sorry for the off-topic comment, but this reminds me of a discussion I had on Slashdot where one old timer said something to the effect of "the editors were never good" and we were looking at the past through rose coloured glasses.
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#35I've been reading this site for over four years now and it was never good, maybe with the exception of the odd Erlang day.
This site has never been good in the four years you have been reading it...
Yet you are still here, reading and commenting...
Why?
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#36I've been lurking on HN now for more than 2years, and the change OP is referring about is totally true... I don't care about boring news coming from TC/Mashable/... Now HN is only about: -Facebook -blogging shit -why no women in IT ? bouhouhou we are all macho jerk.. common grow a pair white knights, smells like virgins over here. -"How Xcompany raised x$$, and why you should definitively not listen to these advices.…
"White knights"? "Smells like virgins"? Are you 14 years old? If you are over 14, maybe the reason people care about misogyny in technology is folks such as yourself providing a good object lesson.
Yeah because we have to talk about this every single day, and promote every single post about it...
Last months they were at least more than 2 post per day about this subject on HN frontpage.
This is not relevant anymore, and coming saying to us "IT guys" that we are all macho ass*, every single day is totally counter productive. And i don't know if you guys in the US are total douches but here in Europe we respect Womens @work
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#37Amen.
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#38you know what it's actually the outside of tech related topics and the great discussions coming from the tech crowd is what makes this place so much more interesting.
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#39I completely disagree with this, I joined HN nearly 4 years ago, and even back then it was a mix of security, programming, start up, and general tech news.
The main change I've noticed in the last year or so is the rise of altcoin and NSA news - but having said that, when I joined there was a lot of TSA articles.
I think the OP is making the classic mistake of only remembering the good bits - "Summers were always hotter when I young", "4chan used to be good", etc
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
"White knights"? "Smells like virgins"? Are you 14 years old? If you are over 14, maybe the reason people care about misogyny in technology is folks such as yourself providing a good object lesson.
Yeah because we have to talk about this every single day, and promote every single post about it... Last months they were at least more than 2 post per day about this subject on HN frontpage. This is not relevant anymore, and coming saying to us "IT guys" that we are all macho ass *, every single day is totally counter productive. And i don't know if you guys in the US are total douches but here in Europe we respect…
I'm European, and in Europe there is quite a bit of a problem as well. It's quite relevant, and if you aren't aware of why, you should educate yourself.
Also, maybe people wouldn't think you were a macho jerk if you didn't act like it. Hint: normal adults don't say things like "common grow a pair white knights, smells like virgins over here". Boys trying to act macho do.