- The comment structure favors the 'middlebrow contrarian' style of response. This phenomenon is particularly acute on Reddit but on here it's a more understate

- The comment structure favors the 'middlebrow contrarian' style of response. This phenomenon is particularly acute on Reddit but on here it's a more understated process that's proportional to HN's design differences to the former. - Insecurity. Criticism is the most acute and well researched on here with child prodigies, more so than any other topic. Since people here get their sense of identity from their self-perception of intelligence, knowledge, and capacity to build certain things, there are many vulnerability points. - Wide, industry ranging experience with bullshit technology claims for most users. - Class and ethnographic differences. Criticism will vary depending on whether the product in question is inherently appealing to adult high-income nerds, no matter its overall utility