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I read a lot of hackernews, for the technical part. But I never liked or believed in the VC/Startup bullshit. If HN had a filter just for technical stories, tha
by zac23or 4y ago
I read a lot of hackernews, for the technical part. But I never liked or believed in the VC/Startup bullshit. If HN had a filter just for technical stories, that would be great.
I never believed in the talk of “let the market decide”, “we invested in that startup to change the world”, “disruption”, “good product will win” and other nonsense.
Everything revolves around money, money and money. And there's nothing wrong with that, the problem is the bulshit not to assume it.
For now, every time someone starts with this kind of bullshit, I will submit the YCombinator petition to the government.
- elliotto 4y agoThere's a lot wrong with everything revolving around money, such as this bank failure for one.
- masklinn 4y ago> I read a lot of hackernews, for the technical part. But I never liked or believed in the VC/Startup bullshit. VC/Startup bullshit is literally hn's business daddy though, that's what the domain it lives on does.
- zac23or 4y agoTrue. In launch batches of YC startups, this becomes unusable.
- ElfinTrousers 4y ago> If HN had a filter just for technical stories, that would be great. You might be ready for https://lobste.rs https://lobste.rs.
- givemeethekeys 4y agoThere are plenty of good technical boards out there, but there are few good startup communities. I'd rather have the startup discussions over everything else.
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y agoThere are many great technical boards indeed, but if you know of one that's as eclectic as HN I'm all ears. It's the only forum I've found where I've had interesting discussions with intelligent(often more so than me, which I crave) peers on pretty much every major or minor interest I have. And the "forum mechanics" are very well tuned to avoid various degenerate states I see forums in. Anything compartmentalized into subforums is pretty much a no go for me because the thinking in each subforum gets so constrained. I agree with GP that the startup stuff can get a bit dominating at times though; a way to filter out say all submissions regarding YC startups would be the icing on the cake, for what has quickly become my favourite online forum.
- jmholla 4y ago> There are plenty of good technical boards out there Do you have any recommendations?
- givemeethekeys 4y agoReddit is full of them. Granted, they tend to be subject-specific, but I subscribe to a bunch, and on aggregate the feed begins to look like HN.