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Epic, about 2/3 of all comments here are jokes. Not because the model is a joke - it's impressive. Not because HN turned to Reddit. It seems to me some of most
by siva7 9mo ago
Epic, about 2/3 of all comments here are jokes. Not because the model is a joke - it's impressive. Not because HN turned to Reddit.
It seems to me some of most brilliant minds in IT are just getting tired.
- jedberg 9mo agoUs olds sometimes miss Slashdot, where we could both joke about tech and discuss it seriously in the same place. But also because in 2000 we were all cynical Gen Xers :)
- syndeo 9mo agoMAN I remember Slashdot… good times. (Score:5, Funny)
- jedberg 9mo agoYou reminded me that I still find it interesting that no one ever copied meta-moderating. Even at reddit, we were all Slashdot users previously. We considered it, but never really did it. At the time our argument was that it was too complicated for most users. Sometimes I wonder if we were right.
- jghn 9mo agoSome of us still *are* cynical Gen Xers, you insensitive clod!
- jedberg 9mo agoOf course we are, I just meant back then almost all of us were. The boomers didn't really use social media back then, so it was just us latchkey kids running amok!
- sizzle 9mo agoRage against the machine
- thr0w 9mo agoPeople are in denial and use humor to deflect.
- Karrot_Kream 9mo agoNot sure which circles you run in but in mine HN has long lost its cache of "brilliant minds in IT". I've mostly stopped commenting here but am a bit of a message board addict so I haven't completely left. My network largely thinks of HN as "a great link aggregator with a terrible comments section". Now obviously this is just my bubble but we include some fairy storied careers at both Big Tech and hip startups. From my view the community here is just mean reverting to any other tech internet comments section.
- jedberg 9mo ago> From my view the community here is just mean reverting to any other tech internet comments section. As someone deeply familiar with tech internet comments sections, I would have to disagree with you here. Dang et al have done a pretty stellar job of preventing HN from devolving like most other forums do. Sure you have your complainers and zealots, but I still find surprising insights here there I don't find anywhere else.
- Karrot_Kream 9mo agoMean reverting is a time based process I fear. I think dang, tomhow, et al are fantastic mods but they can ultimately only stem the inevitable. HN may be a few years behind the other open tech forums but it's a time shifted version of the same process with the same destination, just IMO. I've stopped engaging much here because I need a higher ROI from my time. Endless squabbling, flamewars, and jokes just isn't enough signal for me. FWIW I've loved reading your comments over the years and think you've done a great job of living up to what I've loved in this community. I don't think this is an HN problem at all. The dynamics of attention on open forums are what they are.
- jedberg 9mo ago> FWIW I've loved reading your comments over the years and think you've done a great job of living up to what I've loved in this community. You're too kind! I do appreciate that. I actually checked out your site on your profile, that's some pretty interesting data! Curious if you've considered updating it?
- lnrd 9mo agoIt's too much energy to keep up with things that become obsolete and get replaced in matters of weeks/months. My current plan is to ignore all of this new information for a while, then whenever the race ends and some winning new workflow/technology will actually become the norm I'll spend the time needed to learn it. Are we moving to some new paradigm same way we did when we invented compilers? Amazing, let me know when we are there and I'll adapt to it.
- jedberg 9mo agoI had a similar rule about programming languages. I would not adopt a new one until it had been in use for at least a few years and grew in popularity. I haven't even gotten around to learning Golang or Rust yet (mostly because the passed the threshold of popularity after I had kids).
- esafak 9mo agoWhen this race ends your job might too, so I'd keep an eye on it.
- wartywhoa23 9mo agoWon't happen. Welcome the singularity so many were so eagerly welcoming.
- tavavex 9mo agoIt's also that this is really new, so most people don't have anything serious or objective to say about it. This post was made an hour ago, so right now everyone is either joking, talking about the claims in the article, or running their early tests. We'll need time to see what the people think about this.
- wasmainiac 9mo agoJeez, read the writing on the wall. Don’t pander us, we’ll all got families to feed and things to do. We don’t have time for tech trillionairs puttin coals under our feed for a quick buck.
- ggregoire 9mo agoEvery single day 80% of the frontpage is AI news… Those of us who don't use AI (and there are dozens of us, DOZENS) are just bored I guess.
- dude250711 9mo agoMarketing something that is meant to replace us to us...
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- wartywhoa23 9mo agoA worthwhile task for the Opus 4.6: Complete the sentence: "Brilliant marathon runners don't run on crutches, they use their own legs. By analogy, brilliant minds..."