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Peter Steinberger on Hacker News
- SilverElfin 7mo agoSo he saw a small number of comments that were “personal attacks” (what were they?) and he chooses to generalize and launch his own “personal attack” against the entire HN community. From a person ironically posting on Twitter/X all the time, which is the most toxic community there is. In fact, in a reply to his own post, Peter shared an example of a personal attack … from Twitter/X (https://xcancel.com/steipete/status/2025354408700113274 https://xcancel.com/steipete/status/2025354408700113274). I also saw Andrej Karpathy reply to this post from Peter and he supported Peter’s take on HN (https://xcancel.com/karpathy/status/2025352414648566071 https://xcancel.com/karpathy/status/2025352414648566071). Weirdly, he doesn’t care about the problems on Twitter/X either, or that he is a close associate of Elon Musk, who regularly calls for remigration, AKA ethnic cleansing. Yet he has the nerve to call HN toxic. These people are soft skinned but also propagandists, spreading a false take about the HN community. What’s actually happening is that they don’t care about the much larger toxicity on the platforms they use like Twitter/X, because it does not affect them personally. They don’t care about THAT toxicity. But if some random comment, one among hundreds, attacks them on Hacker News, suddenly this is a problematic platform. In other words, they’re willing to overlook all the harm suffered by people (mostly minorities) due to Twitter/X but they will not tolerate a single harm to themselves.
- niobe 7mo agoit almost sounds like a personal attack on Peter Steinberger
- whattheheckheck 7mo agoOpens x(cancel)... see its owned by the guy funding all right wing criminal pedos and is one himself (and did a nazi salute?)... closes
- zozbot234 7mo agoCalling HN "toxic" is just a meme on X/Twitter. It really doesn't have much to do with the bad personal attacks on the OpenClaw vibecoder guy, it could be anything.
- thomassmith65 7mo agoHere's the past month of comments containing 'steinberger': https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=false&query=Steinberger&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa... Perhaps there are comments elsewhere that only use his first name, or older comments I was to lazy to comb through. If not, there were no comments on HN similar to the nasty example he quoted from XTwitter.
- usef- 7mo agoI'm guessing it's the comments dang refers to here, but they've been cleaned up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47103337 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47103337
- thomassmith65 7mo agoThanks. Yes, that must be the thread he visited. I suppose I give HN a pass for personal attacks if they are flagged. That's actually one reason HN is the only social media I use.
- thomassmith65 7mo ago*too lazy
- Jamesbeam 7mo agoIf he’s so smart, why isn’t he using Openclaw to read HN for him and then summarize the thread comments to soften the blows on his fragile ego? Sam Altman called the man a genius, looks like he is as genius as the orange toll wizard is a genius. Instead of solving problems yap about it as loud and obnoxious as you can on X. Peter Steinberger fits right in there with the other losers supporting the wild party King of Epstein Island.
- Rochus 7mo agoYour statement may well be protected by freedom of speech, but it is a highly unobjective, personal attack of the kind that I personally do not want to see here. It does not help any of the readers in any way, does not present any facts, and contains nothing educational. If anything, it would have been sufficient for you to simply say that you do not like him, if possible with a fact-based explanation. Then people could think about it and, if necessary, respond with other arguments.
- Jamesbeam 7mo ago[flagged]