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Please don't post shallow, snarky dismissals on HN. The guidelines ask us to be more thoughtful in the way we respond to things: https://news.ycombinator.com/n

by tomhow 1y ago

Please don't post shallow, snarky dismissals on HN. The guidelines ask us to be more thoughtful in the way we respond to things: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Dilettante_ 1y ago
GP is making very specific points of contention about the article.
- tomhow 1y ago
  It's the first ever comment by that account, and it seems to contain fulmination and snark, both of which are explicitly against the guidelines, as is curmudgeonliness. Criticism is fine, but it needs to be substantive. If the article isn't fit for HN, people can flag it, and if they really want to, they're welcome to email us at hn@ycombinator.com to point out what's wrong with it and we'll consider further penalties. Comments like the one I replied too just make HN seem mean and miserable and that's definitely something we're trying to avoid.
fransje26 1y ago
Ironic that you refer to the guidelines. The first paragraph of said guidelines reads: What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. And yet, the original submission was just another version of the trope I used AI to boost my productivity 10 fold, and it was all roses and butterflies. After the n-th iteration of the same self-congratulating, hype-pushing, AI-generated drivel, the point can be made that the original submission does not meet the HN guidelines. To quote Jimmy in South-Park: it's an ad.
- tomhow 1y ago
  If the article isn't fit for HN, people can flag it, and if they really want to, they're welcome to email us at hn@ycombinator.com to point out what's wrong with it and we'll consider further penalties. Comments like the one I replied too just make HN seem mean and miserable and that's definitely something we're trying to avoid.

by tomhow 1y ago

Dilettante_ 1y ago

GP is making very specific points of contention about the article.

tomhow 1y ago
It's the first ever comment by that account, and it seems to contain fulmination and snark, both of which are explicitly against the guidelines, as is curmudgeonliness. Criticism is fine, but it needs to be substantive. If the article isn't fit for HN, people can flag it, and if they really want to, they're welcome to email us at hn@ycombinator.com to point out what's wrong with it and we'll consider further penalties. Comments like the one I replied too just make HN seem mean and miserable and that's definitely something we're trying to avoid.

fransje26 1y ago

Ironic that you refer to the guidelines. The first paragraph of said guidelines reads: What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. And yet, the original submission was just another version of the trope I used AI to boost my productivity 10 fold, and it was all roses and butterflies. After the n-th iteration of the same self-congratulating, hype-pushing, AI-generated drivel, the point can be made that the original submission does not meet the HN guidelines. To quote Jimmy in South-Park: it's an ad.

tomhow 1y ago
If the article isn't fit for HN, people can flag it, and if they really want to, they're welcome to email us at hn@ycombinator.com to point out what's wrong with it and we'll consider further penalties. Comments like the one I replied too just make HN seem mean and miserable and that's definitely something we're trying to avoid.