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I really don't want to be too much of a downer, but is this really just an HN post about someone putting something on a shelf?
by pch00 7mo ago
I really don't want to be too much of a downer, but is this really just an HN post about someone putting something on a shelf?
- GJim 7mo agoYou're not wrong. How in gods name this article made it to the front page of HN is a mystery.
- pwg 7mo agoBecause enough readers upvoted it to cause it to appear there.
- relaxing 7mo agoAny ideas on that mystery, then? Since you’ve got your finger on the pulse around here.
- pwg 7mo agoThere's no mystery. The way any story makes the front page is enough users upvote it from the "new" page for it to appear there. So the answer to the question of "how did it make it there" is exactly what I said, enough upvoted it that it made it to the front page. As to "why" those folks upvoted it, well, on that I have no idea.
- relaxing 7mo agoNo I already knew you have no idea, that’s no mystery.
- GJim 7mo agoYou <-----> The Point.
- iso1631 7mo ago16 points in 2 hours?
- paganel 7mo agoWhat can I say, I'm a Billy simp, there's one just behind me as I'm writing this comment and for about a year now I've been forcing myself to buy a new one to put it on the right-side of my current desk (sometimes I'm too lazy for my own good, as in this case). So just seeing Billy in the title and as the actual subject of the blog-post made me upvote the submission, apparently I'm not alone in this.
- criddell 7mo agoBots are in to stuff like this.
- coldpie 7mo agoHey at least it's not Yet Another Fucking LLM Article.
- jvanderbot 7mo agoLiterally today I was thinking about how to organize all my out of date computers in my room, and thinking about building a cabinet or shelves. Oddly poignant. I can't be the only one.
- voidUpdate 7mo agoI mean, you can probably reduce any HN article to something that doesnt sound worthy of being on here if you want
- tabemonooo 7mo ago[dead]
- kotaKat 7mo agoIf the 486es were running OpenClaw then everyone would be losing their minds.
- chairmansteve 7mo agoWell, you know how messy most hackers are..... my mom would like this article.
- EvanAnderson 7mo agoYou could start a giant company using some computers on shelves: https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102662167/ https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10266216...