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Reminds me of what life was like, before I switched from news to hacker news.

by jart 4y ago

MattDemers 4y ago
No lie, I've replaced some of my Twitter time with RSS and a HN feed of the front page, and it's been very nice.
- gandalfgreybeer 4y ago
  Care sharing what you have on your RSS (looking to beef mine up)?
  - rambambram 4y ago
    Not the one you're responding to, but I have a similar experience with the RSS feeds that I follow. I have a public list of feeds I follow at https://www.heyhomepage.com/?module=timeline&view=sharedlist https://www.heyhomepage.com/?module=timeline&view=sharedlist It's not big yet - and probably some sites that you know from here - but I've a backlog of hundreds of feeds that I want to share. I have to categorize this list of feeds first before I make all of them public.
sbf501 4y ago
It's still here. But instead of doomscrolling about news, I see people doomscrolling about how they aren't good enough programmers. HN seems to promote a large number of redundant (and sometimes utterly vapid) blog posts of people trying to SEO their CV. And TBH, politics still makes it to the front page, as do controversial tech issues. There are still of plenty of zealots willing to make everything political, but then again some issues naturally are: musk, crypto, censorship, etc. Granted, HN is not even remotely as bad as 24-hour news stations, but it still creeps in because that's the world we live in (today, anyway).
- civilized 4y ago
  > But instead of doomscrolling about news, I see people doomscrolling about how they aren't good enough programmers. It's Not Getting Better Situation Has Not Improved Solution Elusive
  - grecy 4y ago
    We've tried nothing and we're out of ideas.
  - tenpies 4y ago
    I much prefer to borrow the Great Reset crowd's language: Nothing is Built Nothing is Back Nothing is Better.
- JPKab 4y ago
  "There are still of plenty of zealots willing to make everything political, but then again some issues naturally are: musk, crypto, censorship, etc." You literally did that yesterday. Textbook case of projection. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33003988 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33003988
  - sbf501 4y ago
    > textbook case of projection Well, as I said if you bothered to read my post "some issues naturally are political". But more importantly: what makes you think I _don't_ consider myself a zealot? I never said I wasn't. Lol. Textbook mindreading thought-error. But thanks for being so obsessed with me that went through my history from another discussion we were in. I'm flattered.
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jameshart 4y ago
Hacker news comment threads are a different kind of doomscroll, the steady litany of expressions of all the ways this industry is going to hell in a handcart: This isn’t a new idea You don’t need Kubernetes Why do we need another JavaScript framework? This won’t work, because of this one specific scenario I guess nobody cares about performance any more Developer compensation is ludicrous This security issue wouldn’t affect you if you were on FreeBSD I could do that with a 20 line shell script Warning, PDF Why does everything have to be about politics? Etc, etc, etc..
- llanowarelves 4y ago
  You missed an old classic: I could do that in a weekend

Reminds me of what life was like, before I switched from news to hacker news.

by jart 4y ago

Reminds me of what life was like, before I switched from news to hacker news.

MattDemers 4y ago

No lie, I've replaced some of my Twitter time with RSS and a HN feed of the front page, and it's been very nice.

gandalfgreybeer 4y ago
Care sharing what you have on your RSS (looking to beef mine up)?
- rambambram 4y ago
  Not the one you're responding to, but I have a similar experience with the RSS feeds that I follow. I have a public list of feeds I follow at https://www.heyhomepage.com/?module=timeline&view=sharedlist https://www.heyhomepage.com/?module=timeline&view=sharedlist It's not big yet - and probably some sites that you know from here - but I've a backlog of hundreds of feeds that I want to share. I have to categorize this list of feeds first before I make all of them public.

sbf501 4y ago

It's still here. But instead of doomscrolling about news, I see people doomscrolling about how they aren't good enough programmers. HN seems to promote a large number of redundant (and sometimes utterly vapid) blog posts of people trying to SEO their CV. And TBH, politics still makes it to the front page, as do controversial tech issues. There are still of plenty of zealots willing to make everything political, but then again some issues naturally are: musk, crypto, censorship, etc. Granted, HN is not even remotely as bad as 24-hour news stations, but it still creeps in because that's the world we live in (today, anyway).

civilized 4y ago
> But instead of doomscrolling about news, I see people doomscrolling about how they aren't good enough programmers. It's Not Getting Better Situation Has Not Improved Solution Elusive
- grecy 4y ago
  We've tried nothing and we're out of ideas.
- tenpies 4y ago
  I much prefer to borrow the Great Reset crowd's language: Nothing is Built Nothing is Back Nothing is Better.
JPKab 4y ago
"There are still of plenty of zealots willing to make everything political, but then again some issues naturally are: musk, crypto, censorship, etc." You literally did that yesterday. Textbook case of projection. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33003988 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33003988
- sbf501 4y ago
  > textbook case of projection Well, as I said if you bothered to read my post "some issues naturally are political". But more importantly: what makes you think I _don't_ consider myself a zealot? I never said I wasn't. Lol. Textbook mindreading thought-error. But thanks for being so obsessed with me that went through my history from another discussion we were in. I'm flattered.

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jameshart 4y ago

Hacker news comment threads are a different kind of doomscroll, the steady litany of expressions of all the ways this industry is going to hell in a handcart: This isn’t a new idea You don’t need Kubernetes Why do we need another JavaScript framework? This won’t work, because of this one specific scenario I guess nobody cares about performance any more Developer compensation is ludicrous This security issue wouldn’t affect you if you were on FreeBSD I could do that with a 20 line shell script Warning, PDF Why does everything have to be about politics? Etc, etc, etc..

llanowarelves 4y ago
You missed an old classic: I could do that in a weekend