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Every now and then an article gets to the front page of this website that completely baffles me as to the reason it got there. Could someone explain this one to

Every now and then an article gets to the front page of this website that completely baffles me as to the reason it got there. Could someone explain this one to me?

bhaney 4y ago
I liked reading it, so I upvoted it. Apparently other people did the same.
smaudet 4y ago
Could be in part bot activity. I've seen a couple other weird things rise up on here. The blogging platform for this one is interesting, if you follow the rabbit hole a bit you'll find e.g. https://herman.bearblog.dev/building-software-to-last-forever/ https://herman.bearblog.dev/building-software-to-last-foreve... I don't see that many posts, but it appears to have some interesting traffic on it at present. Worth holding on to perhaps? https://github.com/HermanMartinus/bearblog/ https://github.com/HermanMartinus/bearblog/
- dang 4y ago
  I looked at the data; the upvoters are ordinary HN users—not bots, unless someone created bots 7 years ago to comment about monorepos and upvote Haskell blogs.
  - dsr_ 4y ago
    Alas, you have discovered my fiendish plan.
  - hnedeotes 4y ago
    wait a minute... OMG https://www.haskell.org/cabal/ https://www.haskell.org/cabal/
- TaylorAlexander 4y ago
  I read the featured article and found it interesting. Maybe just a difference of opinion?
returnInfinity 4y ago
its an interesting read, can be related to religion or culture
kelseyfrog 4y ago
Cults (and cult-deprogramming) rely on socio-psychological hacks. So it's definitely related to hacking, though maybe not in the way most tech folks default to.
- smcl 4y ago
  I see the reasoning - but I don't think there needs to be a hack involved in submissions to Hacker News. Just an interesting story that might appeal to the sort of people who hang around, apparently this one caught on. I don't personally like articles that start off with "accusing" the reader of something - like this or the You will never "fix it later" one - but it's easy to click "hide" or to just ignore if I'm not interested.
unkoman 4y ago
It's interesting enough to share with others.
- oska 4y ago
  And has prompted some interesting responses

Every now and then an article gets to the front page of this website that completely baffles me as to the reason it got there. Could someone explain this one to me?

bhaney 4y ago

I liked reading it, so I upvoted it. Apparently other people did the same.

smaudet 4y ago

Could be in part bot activity. I've seen a couple other weird things rise up on here. The blogging platform for this one is interesting, if you follow the rabbit hole a bit you'll find e.g. https://herman.bearblog.dev/building-software-to-last-forever/ https://herman.bearblog.dev/building-software-to-last-foreve... I don't see that many posts, but it appears to have some interesting traffic on it at present. Worth holding on to perhaps? https://github.com/HermanMartinus/bearblog/ https://github.com/HermanMartinus/bearblog/

dang 4y ago
I looked at the data; the upvoters are ordinary HN users—not bots, unless someone created bots 7 years ago to comment about monorepos and upvote Haskell blogs.
- dsr_ 4y ago
  Alas, you have discovered my fiendish plan.
- hnedeotes 4y ago
  wait a minute... OMG https://www.haskell.org/cabal/ https://www.haskell.org/cabal/
TaylorAlexander 4y ago
I read the featured article and found it interesting. Maybe just a difference of opinion?

returnInfinity 4y ago

its an interesting read, can be related to religion or culture

kelseyfrog 4y ago

Cults (and cult-deprogramming) rely on socio-psychological hacks. So it's definitely related to hacking, though maybe not in the way most tech folks default to.

smcl 4y ago
I see the reasoning - but I don't think there needs to be a hack involved in submissions to Hacker News. Just an interesting story that might appeal to the sort of people who hang around, apparently this one caught on. I don't personally like articles that start off with "accusing" the reader of something - like this or the You will never "fix it later" one - but it's easy to click "hide" or to just ignore if I'm not interested.

unkoman 4y ago

It's interesting enough to share with others.

oska 4y ago
And has prompted some interesting responses