2026-09-27 09:51 UTC
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@exu@feditown.com 2026-09-27 10:55
I used to read HN and find interesting stuff, but stopped when it became ever more flooded with startups and AI this. In its place I have the RSS feed from lobsters, which surfaces plenty of interesting articles.
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@mote@lemmy.ca 2026-09-27 10:39
He links it at the end, life imitating art: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49817280 See here’s the thing - to get the ability to downvote / flag articles, you have to say stuff in public enough times to get the 200 (400?) karma to unlock that. Well, how do you get that karma? You say the things that people on that site want to hear so they click upvote. Spot the curricular bias problem? It was intentionally designed this way.
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@son_of_darkness@lemmy.world 2026-09-28 08:28
It’s pack full of gouhls
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@hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 2026-09-28 08:58
Another article of Drew Devault grasping straws. For example he picks out this quote when trying to diminish Paul Graham: Racism, for example, is a genuine problem. Not a problem on the scale that the woke believe it to be, but a genuine one. I don’t think any reasonable person would deny that. The problem with political correctness was not that it focused on marginalized groups, but the shallow, aggressive way in which it did so. Instead of going out into the world and quietly helping members of marginalized groups, the politically correct focused on getting people in trouble for using the wrong words to talk about them. I literally don’t see what’s wrong with this quote. Paul Graham is referencing identity politics, virtue signaling, and other behaviors that were definitely common before, and are still fairly common today.
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@ctrl_alt_esc@lemmy.ml 2026-09-27 11:00
Agree with all of this, but why then does the author stay on HN? It’s as with Xitter, at some point staying on the platform makes you complicit.
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@Oryx_404@lemmy.today 2026-09-28 09:31
Reminder that Drew DeVault is a pedophile. dmpwn.info He also wrote a smear piece about Stallman and then pretended it wasn’t him. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41838124 He is the problem. Ignore him.
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@WesternInfidels@feddit.online 2026-09-27 20:24
Years ago, in the early 20-teens, I had posted on HN in protest to some new web property that aimed to tie yet another aspect of life to cell phones. I said something like “I work in software but I still don’t have a cell phone, I don’t like them, I don’t want one, I don’t want yet another aspect of modern life to encourage dependence on some subscription service like a phone.” Which was all true. This attracted rather more reaction than anything else I posted on there. The reactions fell into a few categories: I don’t believe you, liar, why would you post this I have no sympathy for you, loser, go buy a phone Fuck you Any illusion I had that the HN people were software-loving geeks like me kind of dissolved after that, and I stopped visiting. I suppose that’s exactly what they wanted.