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I am suffering from a severe lack of caring about HN right now so this is not going to be a terribly convincing case, but i feel like i should remark as follows

I am suffering from a severe lack of caring about HN right now so this is not going to be a terribly convincing case, but i feel like i should remark as follows. (Depressingly) I think Arrington is right. The majority of the links on HN are a good demonstration of how tedious things have gotten. The real irony is reading a blog post telling Arrington to shut up and do something to fix the problem instead of blogging about it. Seems like we could have just skipped a whole bunch of steps and arguing, and just do interesting things instead. Instead we're commenting on blog posts (instead of learning/making/doing).

jrajav 14y ago
> Instead we're commenting on blog posts (instead of learning/making/doing). > instead of learning I don't know about your experiences with HN, but I find it to be one of the most efficient ways to learn about and keep up with the current state of the art, and commenting is a part of that. I usually get at least one good take-away for every four articles or comment threads - an extremely high ratio compared to any other web resource I know about. And for the craft we're in, learning and reasoning is doing.
- tbatterii 14y ago
  content wise, HN and r/programming seem to have the same headlines from day to day.(at least the ones that aren't about valley/startup/funding/managerish bs) HN is unique in that it tends to be more civil than r/programming(and there's more valley/startup/funding/managerish bs). IMO
  - saraid216 14y ago
    Believe it or not, some of us aren't on Reddit.
    - nekojima 14y ago
      Are these r/ references to Reddit? I had thought it was yet another new quirky unneeded programming language I had intentionally avoided to learn.
      - joshAg 14y ago
        yes. reddit.com is a community site made up of sub-communities called subreddits. Subreddits have a path of /r/<community name>.
    - tbatterii 14y ago
      obviously
  - RegEx 14y ago
    HN is not more civil. Perhaps less likely to be distracted, but not nicer (if that's what you mean by civil)
    - tbatterii 14y ago
      likely less distracted, and more civil (in my experience anyway). but it varies by subreddit/topic I guess.
      - RegEx 14y ago
        Choose a random article in the top 10 of HN at any given time, and there's a very high chance that the top upvoted comment is either FUD or overly critical. I feel like there is a lot more ego here than in /r/programming.
- pretoriusB 14y ago
  >I don't know about your experiences with HN, but I find it to be one of the most efficient ways to learn about and keep up with the current state of the art, and commenting is a part of that. It's been over a month since I've seen an interesting CS/Programming post on HN. Check the current front page for an example.

jrajav 14y ago

> Instead we're commenting on blog posts (instead of learning/making/doing). > instead of learning I don't know about your experiences with HN, but I find it to be one of the most efficient ways to learn about and keep up with the current state of the art, and commenting is a part of that. I usually get at least one good take-away for every four articles or comment threads - an extremely high ratio compared to any other web resource I know about. And for the craft we're in, learning and reasoning is doing.

tbatterii 14y ago
content wise, HN and r/programming seem to have the same headlines from day to day.(at least the ones that aren't about valley/startup/funding/managerish bs) HN is unique in that it tends to be more civil than r/programming(and there's more valley/startup/funding/managerish bs). IMO
- saraid216 14y ago
  Believe it or not, some of us aren't on Reddit.
  - nekojima 14y ago
    Are these r/ references to Reddit? I had thought it was yet another new quirky unneeded programming language I had intentionally avoided to learn.
    - joshAg 14y ago
      yes. reddit.com is a community site made up of sub-communities called subreddits. Subreddits have a path of /r/<community name>.
  - tbatterii 14y ago
    obviously
- RegEx 14y ago
  HN is not more civil. Perhaps less likely to be distracted, but not nicer (if that's what you mean by civil)
  - tbatterii 14y ago
    likely less distracted, and more civil (in my experience anyway). but it varies by subreddit/topic I guess.
    - RegEx 14y ago
      Choose a random article in the top 10 of HN at any given time, and there's a very high chance that the top upvoted comment is either FUD or overly critical. I feel like there is a lot more ego here than in /r/programming.
pretoriusB 14y ago
>I don't know about your experiences with HN, but I find it to be one of the most efficient ways to learn about and keep up with the current state of the art, and commenting is a part of that. It's been over a month since I've seen an interesting CS/Programming post on HN. Check the current front page for an example.