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There's a new era all the time. Previously, it was NFT rise and fall, Ukraine war, Great Resignation, COVID. Rust hasn't been the hype topic for a while. I'm su

by muzani 4y ago

There's a new era all the time. Previously, it was NFT rise and fall, Ukraine war, Great Resignation, COVID. Rust hasn't been the hype topic for a while. I'm surprised Web3 hasn't taken off here, but then again it's the worst crowd for it. HN tends to be a little irrational - back during Ukraine War, everyone would accuse each other of being Russian sockpuppets lol. And then with COVID, we'd have cameras that track if you were touching your face, and all kinds of contact tracing apps. I've been trying to get people interested in AI for years. I'd get downvoted all the time saying that AI can understand sarcasm or that it would be as good as a human in writing code by 2025. It's a bit frustrating to see it get so overhyped now. Show HN also boosts the hype further. There's a lot of stuff here that are cool ideas, but they were made overnight. Then there's the cooler stuff that took a week to build. And every now and then you see something properly thought through.

stodor89 4y ago
> I'm surprised Web3 hasn't taken off here Well, people on HN tend to have more than 2 brain cells.
- muzani 4y ago
  It's really just decentralized cloud computing. Where people used to make money from mining and trading crypto, some people realize they could make money by selling the computing resources for well, computing. It can match popular tools like AWS in price and latency. I would not vouch for it yet, but it's interesting, reminds me of the GPT-2 era. But it's still in the Innovation stage of the innovation curve, while HN lies in the early majority group. I'd say Show HN actually lies on the shifting point from early adopter to early majority and that's where the hype sweet spot is at.