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Ask HN: Do anyone get anxiety from following Hacker News?

• mardiyah 4y ago
  no follow stuff in HN, only in twitter, fb or quora
• navjack27 4y ago
  Huh? There's a lot of things everywhere. Not just in tech. It seems like you're taking fomo quite seriously. I suggest that you just stop giving a shit. Or maybe resign yourself to the fact that you've been working in software for almost 20 years and all of the stuff that doesn't concern you actually doesn't concern you.
• markerz 4y ago
  I think the key is to focus and prioritize whatever you want or need in life. I actually find a lot of the content on HN to be uninteresting and maybe click on one or two links a week. I’ve also landed on this state after an 8 year career where I feel pretty good about what I know already and that I can learn what I need to learn. Over my life, I’ve learned a lot of stuff in many different fields; I don’t limit myself to tech. For example, I love cooking, making music, drawing, and reading about and practicing mental health. If I find something I genuinely want to learn, it’s just a matter of spending focused time learning it. I also believe it’s important to know when to cut off an interest that is no longer serving you. While discipline is important to push through discomfort and overcome adversity, it’s really silly to be wholly invested in a topic or hobby that brings you no value in life. That value can be monetary or happiness or growth. But it’s important to know that you don’t have to know everything and it’s really silly to do so. There will always be something you don’t know. For you, maybe ask yourself why do you want to know all these things? Maybe you can identify if they serve you in a way. Of those that you believe will make your life better, spend 30 minutes every day or every other day learning from the ground up about the topic. Maybe put it into practice, or just take a course on it. Regularly reflect on if this is what you want to be doing, if your making meaningful progress towards whatever goal you have, and celebrate your successes!
  • Mc91 4y ago
    >> Crypto, ML, Data, Quantum Computing > I think the key is to focus and prioritize I think prioritizing is the key. Part of that is figuring out What is past its prime (Cobol on punch cards), or never really had its day in the sun at all. What is dull but you can make money with, which will probably be around in some form five years from now too (backend programming of micro-services with a popular JVM language) What exciting things are coming into being now which might have some jobs or interesting applications now, or perhaps a lot more in a few years (training and using deep learning models). Crypto nowadays is mostly a scam which began unwinding over a year ago. Probably best to ignore it, its day is past. Quantum computing is interesting but it's such early days that you can put off reading about it this year if you're overwhelmed. ML and big data have had a lot of interesting applications this year. GPT, Stable Diffusion, DALL-E. I can do some pretty cool things on my workstation with Stable Diffusion that was not able to do five months ago. If you have time to look into something new this would be it. As I said, there's modern but dull and not much new innovation things, which there is steady work and money in like React front end programming, or JVM Microservice backend programming, or whatever. There are also things like deep learning which are going from innovation to innovation, which is exciting and may open up a whole new field (Stability AI just got $100 million in funding, although things are so new, they only started putting their hiring team together last month - they're mainly recruiting recruiters right now).
• brudgers 4y ago
  I no longer suffer from FOMO because I now know that to a first approximation I've missed out on everything. I suspect that's true of most people whether or not they believe it. But it's only a suspicion. Good luck.
• readonthegoapp 4y ago
  i've heard chomsky and others talk about how our knowledge of physics is so sophisticated now as compared to 50 or 80 years ago, that you have to have a PhD to even begin to understand how to talk about it intelligently. i feel like a lot of other computing-related concepts are approaching that same level of sophistication. i've usually been pretty good at not worrying about true understanding of various technologies, so the fact that i can't explain ai well, or that most ai is not even capable of offering an explanation of how they make their own decisions, is not so anxiety-producing to me (tho, parts of ai, and explainability, are real problems). but i do get anxious from constantly reading headlines from various substacks and other clickbaity and attention-seeking entities about how some new tech has basically already ended life on earth so we might as well just give up. i'm anxious enough already with real threats to the world -- nukes, global warming, social media, inequality/fascism/authoritarianism, etc.
• robswc 4y ago
  You're never going to be able to follow everything. I only click on a few posts a day. I get what you mean tho. I'm usually frustrated at the fact that there's only 24 hrs in a day.
• PaulHoule 4y ago
  The four topics you list are all high BS topics. I mean: 𝐂𝐫𝐲𝐩𝐭𝐨 —- the main use case is separating fools from their money. Missing out on that one is one of the best things that can happen to you. 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐦 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 —- people starting writing papers on this around 1998 when I got my physics PhD. You could not get a postdoc in it at that time. It got fashionable maybe 10 years later. I am sure there are some people getting tenure in it right now but in 10 years it might be remembered as just another field that ran its course and had better days and it may get a reputation, just as chaos and fractals got in the 1990s as something you just could not make a career in. Sure there will be ‘quantum supremacy’ for particular problems (maybe even that box that is the McGuffin in Sneakers) but you are not going to be using a quantum web server to host your content. 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 —- I hear ‘data is the new oil’ and I think of an oil tanker spill like the Exxon Valdez or maybe like Spider-Man, ‘with big data becomes big responsibility’. I think how TikTok’s recommendation algorithm is so good because they collect better data: they give you a very limited set of choices so the data collect is meaningful. When YouTube shows you 30 links on the other hand you can come to no conclusion that the viewer didn’t like those things. Data is a big part of everything we do in computing. In plain ordinary boring applications development the most important thing is getting your data structures straight. There is a whole art of online transaction processing and the arts of doing analytics after the fact or in real time. 𝐌𝐋 —- data is the currency of ML. If you have a real problem to solve and real test and training data you can do ok with basic algorithms out of scikit-learn. If you don’t have appropriate data you can dream about the latest algorithms and accomplish nothing. You need to know the basics of linear algebra and statistics: the courses you take as a math major are great. Like most other things there is a part of the field which is almost eternal (I think about things Yan LeCun wrote about 20 years ago almost every day and think ‘Neural Networks: Tricks of the Trade’ can turn a failing project into one that succeeds even though it was written before deep networks.) and other parts that are ephemeral. For work I did a lot with LSTM networks for text, then it was CNN networks, those have been forgotten almost because transformers can do things that would be difficult or impossible without attention. Personally I am really interested in those radiance field algorithms for scene synthesis, I haven’t done a project yet but it was clear early on that the algorithms would get much more efficient and that has been happening the whole time I’ve been watching from the sidelines. There are ‘data scientists’ who do quantitative marketing with a lot of smak and pow and get paid really well because they really can increase revenue 850% in two years. They don’t necessarily know a lot about algorithms. If you were working in the field as a scientist you would be one of the people who writes one of the 20 papers on radiance fields a week that would never get a second vote on HN, but as a practitioner you can master the basics and solve real problems for fun and profit.
• hothead334 4y ago
  One thing I try to remember is that HN is a place where a lot of people from the same broad area hang out. There are math Phds here who know nothing about Bash, veteran sys admins who don't know anything about the Node event loop, regular old devs like myself who know nothing about quantum cryptography - but we're all coming over here, posting links and chatting away and tripping over each other's areas of expertise which were literally years in the making.
  • stingraycharles 4y ago
    Yeah I don’t think there’s anything to worry about if you’re overwhelmed: there’s a lot to learn in the world, and HN is just a place where’s you’re exposed to a lot of specific knowledge about certain topics. Just dig deeper into the things that interest you at the moment, and be patient — it may take decades to get up to the same level of knowledge and/or expertise as some people over here.
  • woolion 4y ago
    Exactly this. There is no mystical hn user that has a PhD in every single discipline. I feel you first need to learn how to be competent, then you need to learn how to be incompetent. By that I mean recognize your areas of deficiency, know how and when to ask for external support without being ashamed about it (being competent _somewhere_ helps with that). I don't know if this is meta-cognition, wisdom, or something else. While you're still struggling on the first step it's easy to get tripped on the second one.
  • samwillis 4y ago
    Agreed completely, the joy of HN is the broad spectrum of expertise and a moderation/karma system to elevate both a mix of content on the homepage, but also the experts to the top of the threads. My recommendation to younger people starting out is to aim to become a "T Shaped Person"[0], or even better "F", or "π" shaped. The idea being to have a very wide range of shallow knowledge, enough to communicate, understand, spot the BS, and make a start. But have a very deep area of expertise in one, or ideally a few, core areas relevant to your chosen field. Personally I find HN an invaluable resource to ensure that I have a very board, but shallow(ish), understanding of a large number of interesting things. I've been here for 14 years and it's probably been one of the most valuable experience I have had. 0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shaped_skills https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shaped_skills
• barbariangrunge 4y ago
  I think you’re asking about the anxiety from keeping up with tech news in general? Definitely. You spend a couple of years learning new tech and methodologies and then the industry moves on and you’re behind on something different. Ai is going to rock our world. I personally don’t know what to grab hold of to keep from getting tossed overboard during the coming storm. Great time to start an ai company though, if you can get financing. If you’d like to fund me, I have video game related ideas I’d pursue if I could ^^
• jeffreportmill1 4y ago
  This will seem unrelated, but I’ve often heard people complain about going to the gym: “I hate going to the gym because everyone else is so beautiful and I’m out of shape”. But distorts the reality that most people don’t go to the gym. And the people at the gym the most are the ones that mostly build their lives around it. So following the HN community too closely can stir feelings of insecurity and inferiority and the imposter syndrome. And yeah, I feel it sometimes, too. :-)
  • yawnr 4y ago
    The gym is a great example of survivorship bias. Sure, there are people who look “out of shape” and don’t necessarily see huge aesthetic results from it but continue going, but a lot of the people who stick with it are the ones whose bodies respond really positively to training.
• awb 4y ago
  I ran a successful web agency and only focused on WordPress, Ruby and vanilla JS. It’s possible to ignore 99% of technology and just focus on the 1% that adds value to the problems you’re interested in. I would dabble in many other domains like AI, blockchain, other languages, etc. to test out their effectiveness, but the best advice I have is to focus on your problem first and then find a technical solution that solves that problem. If you start with the technology first and then go looking for a problem, it’s not as effective IMO.
• travoltaj 4y ago
  Yep, felt the same. I cope by reminding myself that I shouldn't compare my personal knowledge with the combined knowledge of a community - multiple people here are knowledgeable about and post about different areas
• thenerdhead 4y ago
  You can only process so much information at a time. I like to think of my brain like a garage. If it's dirty and unorganized, it will be impossible to fit a car in, let alone another piece of junk. But as you start to clean and organize it, it's easier to take in new things. The best way of coping is a JOMO (joy of missing out) and moderation. You don't need to know everything and you surely don't need to spend all your time trying to. It's okay to not know. That's the beauty of life.
• lowmagnet 4y ago
  There's really no need to keep up with the "bleeding edge" of technology. Most of our real advances come from papers that are 30 or 40 years old. The AI/ML/etc. space is only apparently moving rapidly because of the "hotness" of the subject, and a lot of it is an application searching for a problem. I've been in this space since 1995, and I've learned that most of the things that pass by simply don't interest me. I don't really keep up with JS/CSS/HTML stuff any more, since it's a saturated space in a work sense. I focus on the back end exclusively, where things move in much slower, provable steps.
• rolph 4y ago
  you are observing the things you dont know, thats a good thing. some of these things, are things you wont ever need to know, but observation is enrichment. part of a critical knowledge base is allocation of effort toward things you need to know for progress, and indexing those things you dont need to know right now.
• greggarious 4y ago
  You’re only 18 I could barely write a bash script then
• doubled112 4y ago
  Maybe it is perspective. You can't know everything. I'm here for the smart(er) people with experience in different areas. The thing that makes you anxious is the reason I enjoy being here.
• kylehotchkiss 4y ago
  A lot of the trends people get fixated on tend to fade away in a few months. It takes some time to get used to focusing on “boring” tech that builds better projects (php and Postgres come to mind as very viable solutions for development even in 2022). Clients love boring tech because you’re not sitting around explaining to them why something broke because you built it with cutting edge TrendTech. Crypto seems to have outlived its utility as a way to get rich quick. ML is still just a technique to average out giant datasets to find/generate things based on trends (these things work on training data after all and not from a true blank slate). Quantum computing is a long way off and the most practical way it’ll affect most people here is making our encryption keys too simple and some new quantum resistant version will be needed. Just watch chatGPT - in 6 months, it’ll feel like a distant memory here! And people will be raving about some new JS/wasm thing instead
• leetrout 4y ago
  I made this comment a couple years ago: > Also that the HN bubble will always make readers feel behind when in reality 90% of the industry hasn’t even begun to catch-up. I felt behind with K8S in 2016, for example, not realizing we were just seeing the wave form when I felt like it was cresting. [0] 0 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23448835 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23448835
• doitLP 4y ago
  Yes but for me it comes from the articles about environmental destruction. Not just climate but also the myriad other ways we’re making spaceship earth unlivable for our children and other creatures that share it with us. I wish I could filter these out and just stick to the technology.
• Tade0 4y ago
  My personal definition of a senior engineer is "a person who noticed that they already forgot some things they used to know by heart". You can't know everything and you can't keep up with this firehose of new knowledge that is published every day. Most of that is not relevant to your field anyway - whatever it might be, so you don't actually have to know any of it. I mean, you're free to take it all in, but don't expect anyone to quiz you on it in a professional environment.
• mattbaker 4y ago
  Do you have a sense of what specific anxiety you feel? Maybe not (and that’s ok) but to me that’s the more interesting question. I could imagine fears about job security, maybe some sense of falling behind? A simple fear missing of missing out on all the fun in specific sub-fields? We have such a large field in general, I don’t think anyone can know it all, but that can be something to celebrate too. Never a dull moment :)
• anonymoushn 4y ago
  If you want to feel relieved you could try reading the comments section when some topic you know stuff about is posted.
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• antegamisou 4y ago
  If anything I feel depressed from the lack of critical thought considering that buzzwor-y platitudes that dominate the front page. Not really surprising considering the vast majority of people here seem to have probably not received higher education (university/college) in regards to STEM. I didn’t think this was the case before I joined though.
  • phonescreen_man 4y ago
    Not really surprising considering the vast majority of people here seem to have probably not received higher education (university/college) in regards to STEM. You got any critical thoughts or evidence for that conclusion?
  • nonrandomstring 4y ago
    Occasionally I'd agree, but overall I feel a pleasant mixture of hope and some horror. There are people here with a compassionate, humane understanding of technology, who see the dangers alongside benefits and get the complex social implications. Amongst the general population, and even within academia, I often feel isolated, but people here give me enormous hope and courage that I am not alone as a critical thinker. Their good humour lifts my spirits. A smaller group are callous, parochial, selfish but dangerously intelligent people with a Dr. Strangelove style fetish for Brave New Worlds, Singularities and Technological Master-Races. They believe they are a "majority", that others should get out of their way, and they hide behind the banner of "inevitable progress". They would steamroller over the weaker, poorer and less intelligent margins of humanity, burn freedom and sell their souls to make a buck. They are also humourless and prickly in defence of technological golden-calfs. En masse they constitute a blindly-progressive mob-rule centred around technology that terrifies me as much as any far left or right wing political or religious extremists. On balance, I think the former, reflective group have the upper hand. All kinds of opinions are fairly represented here in HN. That co-existence and mutual recognition gives me significant hope.
• Blue111 4y ago
  No, I do skip a LOT of content that I am not interested in though...
  • swagasaurus-rex 4y ago
    Only about 40-50% of the headlines on here make sense to me. When I started frequenting this site years ago it was more like 25%
• ergonaught 4y ago
  No one "gets anxiety" from following HN. Some people think anxious thoughts, which they identify with and take seriously as if they are objectively real and significant occurrences, which then produces physiological changes that are interpreted as feelings of anxiety, about things they read on HN.
  • stingraycharles 4y ago
    This type of argument can be made about anything, and isn’t really constructive. If HN triggers an anxious thought in someone, it’s more than fair to say it’s the cause. Otherwise anything can always be explained as if it’s some “physiological change” or whatever, due to previous experiences in someone’s life. It’s also not relevant to the question OP was asking, as it doesn’t matter for the answer whether or not HN is the direct cause or not — everyone knows what OP meant, and it doesn’t affect the answers anyway.
    • ergonaught 4y ago
      It is entirely relevant and entirely constructive. The question posed is about whether others get anxiety from, paraphrasing, not keeping up with all the crap going on in computing today. The answer is that no one gets anxiety from all the crap going on in computing today. It is incorrect to claim that all the crap going on in computing today "triggers" anything. Thoughts about all the crap going on in computing today occur. Taking those thoughts seriously, as if they are significant and objectively real occurrences, prompts the physiological changes that are then interpreted as anxiety. Yes, that applies to most things in human subjective experience, which is a testament to its immense value, rather than a lack of value. The question was not phrased, at least, as "how does one constructively manage continued professional development with all the crap going on in computing today", but about anxiety over it. That perceived anxiety is the outcome of thoughts like, "There is too much to keep up with, I cannot understand it all, I will fail to provide for myself, I will be homeless and starve to death." But, hey, dismiss and downvote. Least resistance thinking is the way.
• tibbydudeza 4y ago
  A very good question - FOMO is a real fear and it does not help when the job market and esp recruiters are so out of touch about I.T requirements and the buzzwords that they ask for irrelevant things in job adverts. There is joke going around on LinkedIn where somebody asked for x years Kubernetes experience, and it was not even released that long by Google. LinkedIn is just a harvesting farm for recruiters to meet their quotes - my last contracts I found via word of mouth and connections in the industry.
• brundolf 4y ago
  Not the kind of anxiety I was expecting when I clicked tbh Just try to remember that nobody could possibly keep up with everything, and that you don't need to anyway. Follow what stokes your interest and/or pays the bills, and don't worry about the rest
• eloff 4y ago
  I've been a software engineer for twenty years. What I know is a small circle in the Venn diagram of what there is to know. That doesn't give me anxiety. I learn new things every day, and I enjoy doing that. Nobody understands everything. You can go broad or deep in your knowledge, and you'll do some mix of that in your career. Just follow your curiosity and don't be afraid when you're going requires learning something new. Here's the most important part: stop comparing yourself to others. That's only a recipe for unhappiness. There's always someone smarter, better, better looking, richer, more successful, seemingly happier. Happiness comes from inside and from being happy for other's success instead of envying them. It's all lies anyway, everyone shows the image they want the world to see, inside they're just as messed up as you, or worse!
• MerelyMortal 4y ago
  No, but I do feel something that I can't keep up with all of the interesting things going on. I have thousands of HN post bookmarks. I want to organize them, but I am having a problem with procrastination, and also I don't know when I would possibly get to actually read them (beyond just organizing).
• DustinBrett 4y ago
  There is the kind of tech enthusiast who's excited by new information as they GET to learn more, and then there is the kind who is stressed that they HAVE to learn more. If you follow HN because you have to stay on the pulse, you're gonna get stressed, cause tech moves too fast for any 1 person to follow completely.
• worldsavior 4y ago
  Umm no, I don't feel like it. I try to gather around as much information I can, so if there is a topic I don't know, I just learn it. I don't think too much about "how I don't know about that", because there are areas in CS that I'm good at, and others are good at other areas. Like someone is good at algorithmic questions, but bad at design. Don't overthink it.
• dvh 4y ago
  Crypto is traditional scam and quantum computing is funding/academia scam. You don't have to work about those.
• CrypticShift 4y ago
  Nothing to add, so, I took quotes and grouped them. Hacker News is : 1- a jungle of expertise. " tripping over each other's areas of expertise which were literally years in the making. " " I shouldn't compare my personal knowledge with the combined knowledge of a community " 2- an "evanescent" stream of trends " A lot of the trends people get fixated on tend to fade away in a few months " " The four topics you list are all high BS " 3- a leading edge " HN bubble will always make readers feel behind when in reality 90% of the industry hasn’t even begun to catch-up " " No need to keep up with the "bleeding edge" of technology " So you should : 1- Try to just enjoy it " Stop taking fomo quite seriously. I suggest that you just stop giving a shit. " " JOMO (joy of missing out) " " here for the smart(er) people with experience in different areas. The thing that makes you anxious is the reason I enjoy being here " 2- Work on you negative feelings " stressed that they HAVE to learn more. " " feelings of insecurity and inferiority and the imposter syndrome " " If you want to feel relieved you could try reading the comments section when some topic you know stuff about is posted " 3- Reflect on you personal knowledge needs " prioritize whatever you want or need in life " " allocation your effort toward things you need to know for progress, and indexing those things you dont need to know right now " " you've been working in software for almost 20 years and all of the stuff that doesn't concern you actually doesn't concern you. " PS : search the thread for the original context
• bonestamp2 4y ago
  The more you learn, the more you learn how much you will never know. You have to accept that. Get used to saying, "I don't know". Using and being ok with that phrase is one of the most anxiety reducing phrases we have. Life is a collection of coincidences, so I check the front page of HN once/day. Whatever else I miss, "I don't know."
• anonymousiam 4y ago
  There's lots of material here from domains where I know very little. This is one of the reasons I come here! I think what you are saying is that you have anxiety over things that you don't know or understand, perhaps similar to FOMO. Have you considered researching the areas of knowledge where you feel inadequate to improve your self esteem? Alternatively, you could just accept the fact that you will never know everything -- but this should not stand in the way of learning new things.
• thefz 4y ago
  No. HN is the only social/news site I care about and I genuinely find valuable insight in its comments.
• mike_hearn 4y ago
  The main trick I use to avoid feeling overwhelmed is for each technology that feels important in some way, do the minimal work required to learn the following questions: 1. What problem is this trying to solve? 2. What are the strengths / weaknesses? Usually you don't have to go very deep to get a feel for these questions. I figure that if I know these things, then in future if I encounter a problem where tech X is useful I can go learn the details. If I never do, I can at least prioritize within whatever free time/energy I have for additional side learning. As an example, for quantum computing the problem it's solving is surprisingly hard to identify. Breaking (some) cryptographic algorithms is the classical example, but that's not a problem I plan to try and solve anytime soon. Other use cases tend to be vague - ML is often mentioned but actual players in the AI space don't seem to be investing into QC much. Quick eval result: pass for now until use cases become clearer. What about ML? Many useful problems that can be solved with that - anything where you can't easily express an algorithm to solve a problem but one may be learnable by example. Strengths: capable of doing things no other technique can do. Weaknesses: requires lots of clean(ish) data, advanced ML may need specialists, training/inference can be expensive, finding ways to actually apply it to business problems is remarkably tricky due to its capacity for random failure and difficulty in coming up with fixes for that, which doesn't fit the needs of most automation projects ... but can be OK if you can predict fast enough to speed up a human who's already in the loop, or if mistakes are cheaply correctable. The exact details of how it works? I enjoy reading about it. There's a good article on the GPT-3 DNN architecture on the HN front page right now actually, but it's just some casual hobby learning. I don't feel stressed if I don't grok all the details right now because it's not necessary to do so. In other words, focus on knowing the outlines of these topics and learning when/how to apply them, then forget the rest. That doesn't take as much time as you'd expect.
  • hothead334 4y ago
    >> The main trick I use to avoid feeling overwhelmed is for each technology that feels important in some way, do the minimal work required to learn the following questions: These two simple questions seem like a great approach and one I will take in future, appreciate your sharing it.
• yuppie_scum 4y ago
  If something you are following gives you anxiety, stop following it. If you don’t, you have nobody to blame except yourself.
• waspight 4y ago
  I read HN instead of world news to avoid anxiety, a different kind of anxiety perhaps.
• jemmyw 4y ago
  Generally no, it's a more uplifting news source than other sites. I don't think you should be anxious reading some of the pragmatic truth about these tech ideas. I would feel anxious reading about war and climate change, those are deteriorating situations rather than failure of progress. HN also has better comments that don't tend to go towards insulting or argumentative.
• Turing_Machine 4y ago
  Just a guess, but I'd reckon that computer science/software engineering went past the point where one person could know all of the important stuff around the time that Donald Knuth started writing TAoCP... and even then it took a Donald Knuth to do anything remotely approaching an exhaustive treatment of the field. It's okay to not be Donald Knuth.
• readthenotes1 4y ago
  I retired.
• gremlinsinc 4y ago
  I just read the things that pertain to my interests, and if it looks worth exploring I'll broaden my horizons. Though, I think there's a potential now to explore unfamiliar topics and if it's above my paygrade just ask ChatGPT to dumb it down for me.
• satisfice 4y ago
  To me its like watching Star Trek and you say to yourself, “How could the Federation not know about this planet?” and then next week “What a whole OTHER civilization??” But there really are maybe 2000 weird sub-worlds in tech that are a big deal to people in them and almost unknown outside. So you see a lot of posts that are like “Oh we’ve just dropped version 39 of Gryptorflux, so it the beginning of a new era” and you look and there are 50,000 users of Gryptorflux and Electronic Arts is sponsoring it and you’ve never even heard of it before today. I don’t have anxiety because I know that my world of Context-Driven Software Testing looks weird and obscure to almost everyone, too. The reason I am here is to pick up clues, not conquer the universe.
• xtiansimon 4y ago
  I read HN mostly for things I’m already interested in. No anxiety finding more of what you like. And FWIW I don’t like any of the things you mentioned.