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This only looked at submissions it seems. I gather a lot more useful information lurking the comments. I think discussions in the comments here are far ahead of
by shotta 5y ago
This only looked at submissions it seems. I gather a lot more useful information lurking the comments. I think discussions in the comments here are far ahead of the mainstream.
- jedimastert 5y ago> I gather a lot more useful information lurking the comments I don't know if it's a good thing or not, but I've definitely gotten into the habit of opening the comments of a post before the link itself.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoConsidering the prevalence of clickbait, it is an effective way to prevent wasting time if someone has already identified it.
- jedimastert 5y agoIt definitely catches a lot of clickbait, but there's a lot of false positives if the post goes against the hivemind
- mellavora 5y agoAs an old slashdot user, I've almost never done anything else :)
- jasondigitized 5y ago+1 on this. All the good stuff is in the comments.
- gnulinux 5y agoIt's a bad habit since it encourages commenting before reading the submission. But I do the same thing as well, and it's not clear to me how someone could do otherwise without spending extraordinary time on HN. I find HN a very valuable source, so scanning some amount of comments is more important to me than reading all the submissions.
- ghaff 5y ago>I think discussions in the comments here are far ahead of the mainstream. Discussions on HN and the articles they comment on can buy into the hype of the day to just as large a degree as anywhere else. Go back a few years. How many people were confidently predicting that widespread door-to-door autonomous taxis were just 2 or 3 years out?
- lotsofpulp 5y agoI do not know how many, but I do not remember that being a popular position. If I recall, the simple answer to someone proposing that was “we will see when they start testing outside of pristine Arizona/California weather.”
- WastingMyTime89 5y agoIf you are lucky, for every technical subject discussed on Hacker News, you will find at least one expert commenting in the discussion. Here the issue with the pristine weather is directly linked to the difficulty of making LIDAR works under the rain something I remember someone knowledgeable with LIDAR posting very early here. Sadly my feeling is that during the past few years these posts have been becoming rarer and are less upvoted that they used to be. Controversial or very assertive comments seem to have more success. I fear that Hacker News is slowly turning into Reddit.
- globular-toast 5y agoThe Android example is from a comment, not a submission.
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