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could anybody who downvoted this please explain why?
by alexandercrohde 9y ago
could anybody who downvoted this please explain why?
- striking 9y ago> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- alexandercrohde 9y agoI wasn't implying it was against the community guidelines. What I was suggesting was that new hardware always comes out and it's always bigger/faster (and even 2x improvement isn't even historically that much). Are the people upvoting this because they think every single new piece of hardware is newsworthy, or that there's something special here (e.g. they feel intel has a monopoly and are invested in AMDs success), or are they shill accounts ?
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- striking 9y agoI think you're reading into it too hard. It's just neat to find out that there's more than meets the eye here. > or are they shill accounts If you know something the mods don't, email them. But that's not a particularly nice thing to insinuate.
- true_religion 9y agoI am always interested in AMD vs Intel articles, and am excited that the competition is heating up again.
- Simon_says 9y agoThere could hardly be an article that's more in HN's wheelhouse. Upvotes are the least surprising thing ever.
- Dylan16807 9y agoIt's a comment that implies the post is uninteresting and asks for justification of people caring. That by itself makes for a terrible and noncontributing comment.
- fragmede 9y agoThis post contains interesting technical implementation details as to AMD's latest entry into the desktop CPU arena, which by all accounts is very strong competition with Intel's offerings. (Faster and cheaper!) This is relevant to anyone with more than a passing interest in doing things computers, though the exact level of personal interest may vary. Additionally: > Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. Whether your original comment was meant to indicate complaint, it certainly comes across that way. Site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- alexandercrohde 9y agoWell I'm skeptical, but it was a genuine question. I am doubly skeptical that the best response to skepticism is downvoting rather than articulating a response.
- nv-vn 9y agoDownvoting doesn't mean your post was bad. It just means that it shouldn't be at the top of the thread because it's irrelevant. I downvoted the top post because when opening this thread, I should see actual discussion about the article before seeing "why was this upvoted?".
- alexandercrohde 9y agoI guess that's a fair enough explanation of the original question being downvoted. However that same logic couldn't really justify the downvoting of my follow-up "could anybody who downvoted this please explain why?"
- nv-vn 9y agoTrue, I think that people were just over-reacting to what they saw as spam and downvoted all of it.
- alexandercrohde 9y agoI'd also like to point out the above question got downvoted to -4 as well.