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hackernews has a good signal to noise ratio, noise is bad
by ojr 6mo ago
hackernews has a good signal to noise ratio, noise is bad
- AussieWog93 6mo agoHonestly, HN has a lot of people getting infuriated by storms in teacups and spouting shit. Definitely an order of magnitude better than Reddit or Facebook but still not the same as IRL.
- malthaus 6mo agohackernews as a whole has the same issue software engineers have - overestimating one's wisdom and overapplying it with confidence to everything, resulting in horrible takes that might look like signals but are mostly noise