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Hacker news is becoming a nostalgia site. That direction is neither good, nor bad. Just a comment.

2000UltraDeluxe 4y ago
Yeah. I suspect it's because people still like to tinker, while most current developments are intended for massive scales and not hobbyists. On the other hand, the amount of political/news related content has also gone down lately. It might also be that people want to think about something else than the horrifying things going on in the real world.
xnorswap 4y ago
One possible conclusion of that observation is that the upcoming generation of programmers and software developers aren't hanging out here but somewhere else. I'd love to see a plot of median active account age over time.
- nrclark 4y ago
  Where do you figure that is? I'm always looking to broaden my horizons.
  - 0xFF69B4 4y ago
    I'm guessing somewhere along the lines of /r/learnjavascript or /r/learnpython. The browser is the lowest barrier REPL/Interpreter installed on any modern computer and it's possible to make somethig analogous to GORILLAS.BAS with MDN, an HTML5 canvas and a few lines of JS.
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mmcgaha 4y ago
I have noticed that a lot of the 80s and 90s computer nostalgia guys on youtube are a lot younger looking than I would expect. I feel like it is just folks geeking out on history somewhat like I could geek out on music culture from five years before I was born. Either that or the Retro Recipes guy has some amazing genetics https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6gARF3ICgaLfs3o2znuqXA https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6gARF3ICgaLfs3o2znuqXA
- mattl 4y ago
  He’s also an actor so they probably skew a little better looking.
thrower123 4y ago
I welcome anything related to programming and especially the history of programming that pops up on here. There's an incredible amount of ignorance of what has been done before and why things are the way they are, that I encounter continually

2000UltraDeluxe 4y ago

Yeah. I suspect it's because people still like to tinker, while most current developments are intended for massive scales and not hobbyists. On the other hand, the amount of political/news related content has also gone down lately. It might also be that people want to think about something else than the horrifying things going on in the real world.

xnorswap 4y ago

One possible conclusion of that observation is that the upcoming generation of programmers and software developers aren't hanging out here but somewhere else. I'd love to see a plot of median active account age over time.

nrclark 4y ago
Where do you figure that is? I'm always looking to broaden my horizons.
- 0xFF69B4 4y ago
  I'm guessing somewhere along the lines of /r/learnjavascript or /r/learnpython. The browser is the lowest barrier REPL/Interpreter installed on any modern computer and it's possible to make somethig analogous to GORILLAS.BAS with MDN, an HTML5 canvas and a few lines of JS.

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mmcgaha 4y ago

I have noticed that a lot of the 80s and 90s computer nostalgia guys on youtube are a lot younger looking than I would expect. I feel like it is just folks geeking out on history somewhat like I could geek out on music culture from five years before I was born. Either that or the Retro Recipes guy has some amazing genetics https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6gARF3ICgaLfs3o2znuqXA https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6gARF3ICgaLfs3o2znuqXA

mattl 4y ago
He’s also an actor so they probably skew a little better looking.

thrower123 4y ago

I welcome anything related to programming and especially the history of programming that pops up on here. There's an incredible amount of ignorance of what has been done before and why things are the way they are, that I encounter continually