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Today? No. In the past? Maybe. Hacker news used to be the place you’d come for the cutting edge in technology and entrepreneurship surrounded by interesting p
by bnchrch 5y ago
Today? No.
In the past? Maybe.
Hacker news used to be the place you’d come for the cutting edge in technology and entrepreneurship surrounded by interesting people pushing the boundaries day by day.
Nowadays it’s none of that. You no longer stumble upon the bleeding edge and most of the comment section is a wasteland of negativity (pot kettle I know).
It seems to be the natural progression of technical communities. Stackoverflow, /r/programming and now Hacker News.
- WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 5y agoSad but I feel the same way. I still enjoy reading HN comments and there are occasional gems among them, but most posts on HN these days reflect the mainstream majority opinion, the same platitudes and topics over and over again. It's not people at the forefront of new technology. I guess it's the "crossing the chasm" effect. I don't know any better place though. I find myself using specific small subreddits more and more recently even though I was never a big reddit user in the past.
- jamil7 5y agoMaybe it’s a reflection of the industry as a whole? Or maybe these communities are elsewhere now.
- clownpenis_fart 5y agoI don't know that it's none of that, it does seem to still be full of Smartest People In The Room
- MarblePillar 5y agoWhere is the new frontier?
- Jach 5y agoIt doesn't yet exist, and the old world is gone, same with so many professional magazines (RIP Dr. Dobb's). Enjoy the transitory period.
- MarblePillar 5y agoSad.