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HN is such a weird place. Every so often it adopts these communities of people obsessed with something, and lately it's whatever LK-99 is. I wish they'd just go

HN is such a weird place. Every so often it adopts these communities of people obsessed with something, and lately it's whatever LK-99 is. I wish they'd just go make a subreddit.

dimillian 3y ago
Whatever it is? I mean it could change our relationship to energy in the next 10 to 20 years. If you don't get excited by this then I don't know.
- ant6n 3y ago
  Perhaps more interested in the next generation of adtech?
  - dimillian 3y ago
    Prob making quick bucks on cryptos
local_issues 3y ago
But this is so much fun! Reddit isn’t fun, and the energy here is just lovely
- hcks 3y ago
  You might want to checkout the many subreddit dedicated to crypto. Same energy
  - local_issues 3y ago
    Huh? Those are people trying to pump garbage. This is people excited for a huge breakthrough. Life is so much more beautiful and wondrous if you're willing to be vulnerable. Let people be excited.
stormfather 3y ago
The smartest people obsessing over LLMs and LK-99 is exactly what I want, personally. They're potentially truly revolutionary things.
- hcks 3y ago
  The smartest people are not obsessing over LK-99, actually
  - stormfather 3y ago
    Well there are some people whose personality is their snarky cynicism and negativity. If other people weren't getting excited about stuff, they wouldn't have anything to reject and belittle! Then we wouldn't all get to know how smart they are. How unfortunate that would be.
    - throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
      And some people's personality is to be an armchair expert speculating for speculation's sake. I guess it makes them feel smart, and they like to hear themselves talk
krsdcbl 3y ago
I find it much more odd that whenever noteworthy scientific or technical news are heavily discussed on this news platform that is pretty much for such content, some users are very quick to be needlessly dismissive of everybody's interest, citing the currently higher frequency of threads/links concerning said newsworthy topic. Quite ironically though, individually policing & complaining about the relevance of specific subtopics indeed feels quite "Reddit", while one of the things that make HN so pleasant is exactly that it's user base usually abstains from arguing about such meta & leave moderating actual offtopic to the moderators.
devnullbrain 3y ago
There already is an LK-99 subreddit

HN is such a weird place. Every so often it adopts these communities of people obsessed with something, and lately it's whatever LK-99 is. I wish they'd just go make a subreddit.

dimillian 3y ago

Whatever it is? I mean it could change our relationship to energy in the next 10 to 20 years. If you don't get excited by this then I don't know.

ant6n 3y ago
Perhaps more interested in the next generation of adtech?
- dimillian 3y ago
  Prob making quick bucks on cryptos

local_issues 3y ago

But this is so much fun! Reddit isn’t fun, and the energy here is just lovely

hcks 3y ago
You might want to checkout the many subreddit dedicated to crypto. Same energy
- local_issues 3y ago
  Huh? Those are people trying to pump garbage. This is people excited for a huge breakthrough. Life is so much more beautiful and wondrous if you're willing to be vulnerable. Let people be excited.

stormfather 3y ago

The smartest people obsessing over LLMs and LK-99 is exactly what I want, personally. They're potentially truly revolutionary things.

hcks 3y ago
The smartest people are not obsessing over LK-99, actually
- stormfather 3y ago
  Well there are some people whose personality is their snarky cynicism and negativity. If other people weren't getting excited about stuff, they wouldn't have anything to reject and belittle! Then we wouldn't all get to know how smart they are. How unfortunate that would be.
  - throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
    And some people's personality is to be an armchair expert speculating for speculation's sake. I guess it makes them feel smart, and they like to hear themselves talk

krsdcbl 3y ago

I find it much more odd that whenever noteworthy scientific or technical news are heavily discussed on this news platform that is pretty much for such content, some users are very quick to be needlessly dismissive of everybody's interest, citing the currently higher frequency of threads/links concerning said newsworthy topic. Quite ironically though, individually policing & complaining about the relevance of specific subtopics indeed feels quite "Reddit", while one of the things that make HN so pleasant is exactly that it's user base usually abstains from arguing about such meta & leave moderating actual offtopic to the moderators.

devnullbrain 3y ago

There already is an LK-99 subreddit