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I'm sorry to add fuel to the fire but I've noticed this last few weeks. Almost every single top post to every new Show HN type submission is a brutal teardown o
by chime 14y ago
I'm sorry to add fuel to the fire but I've noticed this last few weeks. Almost every single top post to every new Show HN type submission is a brutal teardown or sometimes unfounded criticism. This kind of behavior does not encourage sharing of neat things we build. I've made many things and shared on HN in the past but I'm pretty sure if I were to submit similar things today I'd be called out for not supporting PlatformOfChoice in v0.1a or using improper font-size. I would be nice if people constructively criticized the core product being shared not the tertiary aspects.
If I write a blog post on how to find and fix leaks in single-page JS apps in various browsers, the top post shouldn't be the one complaining about how Chrome takes more memory than Firefox. Comments like that are certainly on topic because memory leaks end up using more memory by definition. The problem is that those kind of comments are too generic to improve anything for anyone but incite enough vitriol to get voted to the top. The top post should be the one finding faults with my leak handling practices and suggesting better methods of doing the same.