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HN seems to shoot down everything with negativity. Maybe I’m romanticising my memories, but where’s the hacker spirit gone? Perhaps we’re all jaded.
by pixxel 5y ago
HN seems to shoot down everything with negativity. Maybe I’m romanticising my memories, but where’s the hacker spirit gone? Perhaps we’re all jaded.
- roughly 5y ago@dang pointed out when I commented similarly on another thread that early comments on threads seem to tend towards the negative, and sentiment often shifts more positive as things go on (which is exactly what happened on that other thread)
- LordDragonfang 5y agoI'll fill in for dang here. It's the contrarian dynamic. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=%22contrarian%20dynamic%22%20by%3Adang&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- Dracophoenix 5y agoFor the chemistry-inclined, it's also known as Le Chatelier's Principle.
- uncomputation 5y agoMeh, go back to this day, 2013 [0] and you’ll see the same constructive/non-constructive criticism. It’s an exacting crowd, which is what I love personally.
- t0bia_s 5y agoI wouldn't say that it is negativity. It's criticism that is mostly constructive, which I appreciate because nowadays it is popular to ban/cancel criticism on forums or social networks.
- goodpoint 5y ago> HN seems to shoot down everything with negativity Except marketing-driven products, which get really overhyped here.
- jart 5y agoThe project is 100% negative liberty so it doesn't surprise me that there's a negative reaction. The selling point to unbundling can't be pure fear. Consider supporting the SerenityOS browser. Andreas Kling is breaking his back creating an entirely new browser, and it actually works. It takes a true genius to do something like that.