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>Have you actually read "The end of History"? The Hacker News guidelines page[0] is a pretty incredible document. One of the smallest but most central insights

by yodon 5y ago

>Have you actually read "The end of History"? The Hacker News guidelines page[0] is a pretty incredible document. One of the smallest but most central insights in it is "Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. 'Did you even read the article? It mentions that' can be shortened to "The article mentions that." Unlike most sites, HN is very intentional about optimizing everything in the site for quality of discussion, not for outrage and conflict and dismissal. Everything about how the Karma system works here and the way audiences react to posts differently here than on Reddit ties back to that goal (HN isn't interested in page views or ad revenues, it wants to be interesting to smart people so they stick around and participate). [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

shusaku 5y ago
Except “the end of history” isn’t the article linked. Maybe you’d know that if you read it.
- yodon 5y ago
  >Except “the end of history” isn’t the article linked. Maybe you’d know that if you read it. Again, following the advice in the HN guidelines I will "assume the best interpretation" of your comment and say yes, I and others are quite comfortable generalizing from a specific quote that happens to mention how to respond to comments about a post to understand how that recommendation would apply to comments about other articles and topics without needing that to be explicitly spelled out, and yes I've read quite a number of works by Fukuyama though in my opinion "The end of history" is far from his best work. I've personally found "The origins of political order" to be much more thought provoking.