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I'm not sure that HN is the confluence of the smartest minds in technology. Indeed a lot of very smart people are publishing stuff here, but for the first HN is
by irundebian 9y ago
I'm not sure that HN is the confluence of the smartest minds in technology. Indeed a lot of very smart people are publishing stuff here, but for the first HN is rather a confluence of young more or less trend-driven technology enthusiasts, which are able to present themselves.
- xg15 9y agoAlso, it's easy to forget that this is an important place for tech PR and advertising - so there is some incentive to appear smarter than you actually are. (Not implying there aren't a ton of genuinely exceptional people here)
- krapp 9y agoHN is weird. At the top of the bell curve, you have people like Alan Kay, NASA engineers, cryptographers, founders of Reddit and 4chan and the like - obvious brilliant thinkers and innovators who'll pop in to a thread about something and mention how they invented or were involved in the thing being talked about. At the edges, it's not much smarter than a tech subreddit or /g/.