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Hacker news is definitely toxic and fairly prone to being unnecessarily down on npm and JavaScript in general. Although HN thinks HN is very intelligent and goo
by haburka 8y ago
Hacker news is definitely toxic and fairly prone to being unnecessarily down on npm and JavaScript in general. Although HN thinks HN is very intelligent and good at debate, it’s somewhat prone to promoting one opinion and in a very aggressive way. I read it because I like discussions, but they have been getting more and more one sided over time. Unfortunately, most users seem to think that this is reddit in my opinion.
- paulddraper 8y agoHN is predominantly urban, male, OSS-loving, Trump-hating, NN-supporting, anti-GDPR, socially liberal, and fiscally conservative with tendancies towards old-school (C > JS) and estoteric (Rust > Go) tech. But every community has some sort of bias. Otherwise, it's not really a community. Yes, my comments about issues with NN are disagreed with and downvoted to oblivion, but there's very few verbal attacks, and generally well-reasoned arguments.
- RaleyField 8y ago> unnecessarily down on npm What if, perhaps, they are deservedly [1][2]. [1] https://hackernoon.com/im-harvesting-credit-card-numbers-and-passwords-from-your-site-here-s-how-9a8cb347c5b5 https://hackernoon.com/im-harvesting-credit-card-numbers-and... [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20150515011238/https://nodejs.org/ https://web.archive.org/web/20150515011238/https://nodejs.or...