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I wonder if an article called "Hacking my Penis" would ever last long the HN front page.
by zeteo 14y ago
I wonder if an article called "Hacking my Penis" would ever last long the HN front page.
- guylhem 14y agoThis is a sexist remark. It all depend on the content of the article. Did you take time to read the article? It's just great - full of technical details, including the reasoning behind the creation of the hack. Many times I've seen dumb things in the front page - complex pointless hacks (I remember one about locales and printf which advocated a libc recompile while I suggested a perl oneliner). This is a genuinely interesting and creative hack. EDIT: as I mentionned below, "The title is misleading" - it is linkbait. But the content is there.
- mememememememe 14y agoThat's not sexist.
- zizee 14y agoGood article, link baity title.
- djisjke 14y agoSure may be. On that note, have there been any non-linkbaity titles on HN in, well, as long as one may remember?
- zizee 14y agoSure there is, a quick look shows: Scientists See Promise in Deep-Learning Programs Machine Learning: Neural Network vs Support Vector Machine Suite of 300 icons for web and user interface design But you are right that there is a lot of link-baitiness on HN. Doesn't mean we can't wish for better.
- kolleykibber 14y agoWho would have thought this title was link bait?
- zizee 14y agoSorry, not sure what you are saying? Perhaps there is some undetected sarcasm in your comment?
- drivebyacct2 14y agoI think there might be a misunderstanding here, just want to make sure you guys are on the same page (as I am perceiving it). I don't think he is saying it shouldn't make it on HN, if anything he's speculating as to whether or not it would be on the #1 spot if it were a male sex hack instead..
- trhtrsh 14y agoFixing bugs in widely used Unix software, maintaining compatibility with the existing related components and promoting cross-platform portability, for the benefit of thousands of future users, and documenting the experience as an educational tidbit for others, is not dumb.
- askothecoder 14y agoProbably not. Then again the majority of HN's visitors are developers or designers, right? If so, they're job is to be as open-minded as possible, in which case it should last quite long. But probably not.
- lazyjones 14y ago/me open-mindedly wonders what's going to happen to HN and everyone else who links to the article in the age of "SafeSearch" filters, search engines sinking pages using sexually explicit content etc. ... We may still be open-minded, but we are surrounded by software that isn't.
- mmastrac 14y agoApparently that word is automatically deleted from titles. Coincidentally, I had just tried submitting an unrelated article about Miiverse drawing detection and had to replace it with "P*nis". http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4826621 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4826621 [edit] I ended up deleting the submission because it turned out to be an Onion-like site.
- MartinCron 14y agoI find that very disheartening. Would HN be over-run with penis talk if it weren't for this blockade?
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- philwelch 14y ago"Penis" seems like a very high probability spam term. You don't often see spam promising to increase the size of your vagina.
- stcredzero 14y agoThat's because around half the population already have standing offers to do so.
- tekromancr 14y agoGood zinger!
- daniel-cussen 14y agoThis has to be because vaginas look like parens (). It's all part of the Lisp Conspiracy!
- Strshps1MoreTim 14y agoOr even (()) :D
- drivebyacct2 14y agoUhm, to be frank, there are prostate "hacks". Explore at your own volition. http://wiki.malegspot.com/index.php?title=Main_Page http://wiki.malegspot.com/index.php?title=Main_Page (Not associated with them, and note that the wiki is run by a company selling the tools mentioned in the wiki) Though it's admittedly lower tech. I would welcome technological advances for men as well. Why not? It interests both the human and hacker in me.
- shoopy 14y agoYou can buy e-stim boxes especially made for zapping the nether regions on males and females alike. One of the configurations on the ET312, called "tri phase", combines a two-conductor plug placed near the prostate with pads placed at each feet, and the end result is utterly wild. It's really unfortunate that most guys are too hung up about their own bodies to explore it.
- qdot76367 14y agoET-312 software interfaces are some of the most advanced out there right now, too. The community at http://smartstim.com http://smartstim.com is absolutely amazing to watch.
- vacri 14y agoWhy does any article focusing on women's experience have to have someone come along and say 'it's hard for us men'?
- mistercow 14y agoI sympathize with that point, but there's more to it than "what about teh menz?" The question is this: is this doing well on HN because HN is full of progressive-minded feminists upvoting a neat DIY project on its merits, or is it doing well on HN because it serves as fodder for the nerd-girl fantasies of a primarily male readership? I really think this is an important point that often gets missed on male dominated social news sites. Readers are quick to pat themselves on the back for the community's mature lack of slut-shaming, while neglecting to realize that an entirely different form of sexism and woman-objectification is taking place.
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- mistercow 14y agoI don't think the majority explicitly thinks like that. Probably, if you asked them why they upvoted, their post hoc justification would be about how not-sexist they were. They'd be proud of it. But the post hoc justifications people come up with when they actually think about their motivations are very often not the original reasons for their actions, especially when the original reasons are not admirable. Don't get me wrong here - I don't think that men should feel guilty about their gut reactions to stories like this. If the "female nerds are popular on the internet because they fuel male nerd-girl fantasies" problem is one that needs to be addressed, I have no idea of how to address it. I just think we should recognize that that's what's happening instead of congratulating ourselves on being so modern.
- zerostar07 14y agoMy deleted comment was "I don't think the majority thinks like that" , which i deleted because i don't have data to back it up. But after reading your reply, what the hell dude/gal? Can't it be that people upvoted the article because sexy subject+technology is double win? Can't it be because i am actually jealous i haven't hacked my penis yet? And i'm not even a Feminist. Now your theory about guilt and nerdgirl fantasies... i think you 're really reaching there
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- zerostar07 14y agoI wonder if someone could hack the cobra libre[1], cause it's really disappointing :) 1 http://www.amazon.com/Cobra-Libre-Massager-Vibrating-Stimulator/dp/B004VSI9OQ http://www.amazon.com/Cobra-Libre-Massager-Vibrating-Stimula...
- djisjke 14y agoLife truly is hard for us men in tech.
- pjscott 14y agoI urge you to try it. Do some hardware hacking, have fun playing with wires and microcontrollers and whatever else strikes your fancy, and then write an interesting article about it. This can be a very rewarding hobby.
- shirro 14y agoSadly the sustained value women can get from a sex toy is so much more than anything a bloke can briefly get. This article deserves to make it to the top for the hackery alone. I doubt if a tube of lube would be as worthy. Hopefully there will a surge of women into the technical fields now they realise they can hack their own sex toys because everything else seems to have failed to attract and retain them in numbers. If they are all like this one it can only be a good thing.
- drivebyacct2 14y ago>Sadly the sustained value women can get from a sex toy is so much more than anything a bloke can briefly get. Uh, yeah, speak for yourself.
- sliverstorm 14y agoIn this vein, I find it interesting to note that this article has been pegged at #1 for 12 hours now.
- kdazzle 14y agoBeing a generally excellent article aside, there are really very few articles on HN that deal with women, and even fewer that have a feminist bent, such as this one could be easily argued to have. There is also a noticeable lack of women in tech, so an article for and about women is more notable and interesting than articles about dudes wanting to be or being entrepreneurs. Those are being written roughly the same way twenty times per day. Now if you're curious about how big your hypothetical penis article gets, the best way to find out is probably not by posting thinly veiled sexist comments. Instead I suggest finding out how to hack your penis (literally, if you want) and then writing an article as well as this woman has.
- rmc 14y agoIn other words, we're all hackers here. If you want to see cock stuff, Just do it.
- tagada 14y agoOk, lets create an article named "how those nerdy geeks can think just with their wands only when reading a women's sexuality related topic" ... You are sexist. This article is not "excellent". It's good. Plus, it's been written by a woman. Maybe ovaries' smelling will push up its rank for you, weak person.
- tagada 14y agoYou re in troubles ... Probably a perv ...