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HN is so strangely anti tech and anti startup at this point. I'm not sure exactly who's on the platform at this point. Unemployed OSS devs bitter that everyone

by DGAP 6y ago

HN is so strangely anti tech and anti startup at this point. I'm not sure exactly who's on the platform at this point. Unemployed OSS devs bitter that everyone else in the valley is making more money than them?

Cyclone_ 6y ago
I don't really view this as anti-tech or anti-startup at all. These kind of laws make sense regardless of whether a small or large company is committing the offense.
AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
People sick of all the terrible, exploitative, world-worsening things that modern tech companies seems to be all about?
bjornsing 6y ago
Yea I’ve noticed this too. HN is starting to feel more and more like my social surroundings here in Sweden. On the other hand my social surroundings are obviously picking up some aspects of HN. Maybe culture is converging globally in a lot of ways?
umeshunni 6y ago
I find it especially true early in the US day, perhaps because the audience then is probably bitter Europeans?
- Lev1a 6y ago
  Why would we be bitter? Here in Germany for example there is at least one example ( https://www.lieferando.de https://www.lieferando.de ) of a takeaway/delivery service that AFAICT operates only on official partnerships with restaurants etc. Just for the record, I'm not in any way affiliated with them or any other such business apart from ordering through once or twice a few years ago.
throw_m239339 6y ago
anti tech... it's called fraud. The "We're just an app" excuse needs to die already. It has absolutely nothing to do with tech, everything to do with an unethical business model. Absolutely nothing to do with technology.
SamoyedFurFluff 6y ago
How is this anti-tech or anti-startup? This doesn’t have anything to do with tech at all. I would welcome talking about purely technical subjects, like distributed database innovation. There’s nothing technical about impersonating a restaurant?

by DGAP 6y ago

Cyclone_ 6y ago

I don't really view this as anti-tech or anti-startup at all. These kind of laws make sense regardless of whether a small or large company is committing the offense.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago

People sick of all the terrible, exploitative, world-worsening things that modern tech companies seems to be all about?

bjornsing 6y ago

Yea I’ve noticed this too. HN is starting to feel more and more like my social surroundings here in Sweden. On the other hand my social surroundings are obviously picking up some aspects of HN. Maybe culture is converging globally in a lot of ways?

umeshunni 6y ago

I find it especially true early in the US day, perhaps because the audience then is probably bitter Europeans?

Lev1a 6y ago
Why would we be bitter? Here in Germany for example there is at least one example ( https://www.lieferando.de https://www.lieferando.de ) of a takeaway/delivery service that AFAICT operates only on official partnerships with restaurants etc. Just for the record, I'm not in any way affiliated with them or any other such business apart from ordering through once or twice a few years ago.

throw_m239339 6y ago

anti tech... it's called fraud. The "We're just an app" excuse needs to die already. It has absolutely nothing to do with tech, everything to do with an unethical business model. Absolutely nothing to do with technology.

SamoyedFurFluff 6y ago

How is this anti-tech or anti-startup? This doesn’t have anything to do with tech at all. I would welcome talking about purely technical subjects, like distributed database innovation. There’s nothing technical about impersonating a restaurant?