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The politics in the comments here are really toxic. What’s happening to HN? This is the largest computer cluster the world has ever seen. Can someone please p

The politics in the comments here are really toxic. What’s happening to HN? This is the largest computer cluster the world has ever seen. Can someone please post interesting comments about things I can learn?

9283409232 2y ago
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- sixQuarks 2y ago
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  - dang 2y ago
    Please don't cross into personal attack.
- blain 2y ago
  I'm going to risk it and say you can ignore it, you just have to want and if you need to went go to reddit. In Poland we have a new affair every month and I don't care. Your country will be fine. I would also love to see more technical stuff discussed here.
breakitmakeit 2y ago
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zulban 2y ago
Indeed. Nearly every news outlet I follow is slamming Elon. I come here for tech.
dang 2y ago
It's a reflection of the wider society and (as others have pointed out) the media environment. HN can't be immune from macro trends. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=macro%20trends%20immune%20by%3Adang&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... We've been here before. It will likely subside, as past swings and fluctuations have. It always takes longer than it feels like it should, but in retrospect turns out to be shorter than it felt like it did.
- ccorcos 2y ago
  haha interesting search query. thanks for your hard work dang!
  - dang 2y ago
    (I feel bad about linking so often to my own comments but that information mostly doesn't exist anywhere else)
qwerpy 2y ago
It was initially pretty bad. The top few comment threads were toxic and rehashed outrage. It’s a lot cleaner now. Thanks to the moderators and/or users flagging the non-productive comments.
archagon 2y ago
This is akin to suggesting that we should have all been praising Microsoft for their achievements back in the day rather than saying a word about EEE, their monopolism, or their enmity towards open source. Or that it’s not polite to bring up the CCP when discussing TikTok. Bottom line: a technology that has the ability to shape human thought perhaps more than any other in history is owned by a man with some truly vile ideas. (Remember, his primary stated goal is eliminating the “woke mind virus,” i.e. reshaping global politics and culture in the image of the far-right.) We can make happy marketing noises all we like, but at the end of the day, that’s the thing that’s actually going to have a meaningful impact on the world. Once his audience is captured, the model will say what Musk needs it to say and people will believe it. If we can’t discuss the potentially catastrophic consequences of new technology, then none of us deserve to call ourselves “engineers.” We are just docile consumers latched onto Silicon Valley’s teat.
- ccorcos 2y ago
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  - kelnos 2y ago
    I don't think anyone is telling you what your opinions should be. The GP post just presents the GP's opinion. You're free to agree or disagree with it as you choose. If you read a comment that you're unhappy with, downvote it and move on.

9283409232 2y ago

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sixQuarks 2y ago
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- dang 2y ago
  Please don't cross into personal attack.
blain 2y ago
I'm going to risk it and say you can ignore it, you just have to want and if you need to went go to reddit. In Poland we have a new affair every month and I don't care. Your country will be fine. I would also love to see more technical stuff discussed here.

breakitmakeit 2y ago

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zulban 2y ago

Indeed. Nearly every news outlet I follow is slamming Elon. I come here for tech.

dang 2y ago

It's a reflection of the wider society and (as others have pointed out) the media environment. HN can't be immune from macro trends. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=macro%20trends%20immune%20by%3Adang&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... We've been here before. It will likely subside, as past swings and fluctuations have. It always takes longer than it feels like it should, but in retrospect turns out to be shorter than it felt like it did.

ccorcos 2y ago
haha interesting search query. thanks for your hard work dang!
- dang 2y ago
  (I feel bad about linking so often to my own comments but that information mostly doesn't exist anywhere else)

qwerpy 2y ago

It was initially pretty bad. The top few comment threads were toxic and rehashed outrage. It’s a lot cleaner now. Thanks to the moderators and/or users flagging the non-productive comments.

archagon 2y ago

This is akin to suggesting that we should have all been praising Microsoft for their achievements back in the day rather than saying a word about EEE, their monopolism, or their enmity towards open source. Or that it’s not polite to bring up the CCP when discussing TikTok. Bottom line: a technology that has the ability to shape human thought perhaps more than any other in history is owned by a man with some truly vile ideas. (Remember, his primary stated goal is eliminating the “woke mind virus,” i.e. reshaping global politics and culture in the image of the far-right.) We can make happy marketing noises all we like, but at the end of the day, that’s the thing that’s actually going to have a meaningful impact on the world. Once his audience is captured, the model will say what Musk needs it to say and people will believe it. If we can’t discuss the potentially catastrophic consequences of new technology, then none of us deserve to call ourselves “engineers.” We are just docile consumers latched onto Silicon Valley’s teat.

ccorcos 2y ago
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- kelnos 2y ago
  I don't think anyone is telling you what your opinions should be. The GP post just presents the GP's opinion. You're free to agree or disagree with it as you choose. If you read a comment that you're unhappy with, downvote it and move on.