To whoever downvoted this. I used to come to hacker news years ago and see 90% programming related things: Type system abuse, extreme common lisp code, libraries and tools. It was pretty much all tech debate all the time. The worst days would be 70% tech. Today thats a good day.
Nowadays theres a lot more californians being mad at elon, poetic eulogies, paid articles about "how to write good" or how "you should write even if people dont read it."
People will try to say it hasnt changed but it has changed. It is about half as tech related, and about 10 times as reactionary in the same way the rest of the internet has become more dumb.
You can be mad if you want, but everyone can see it, and thats why some people I know in real life are referring to hacker news as orange reddit in a denigrating way. Reading hacker news doesnt confer programming street cred like it did ten years ago. That isnt because im cynical, or want it to be true. It just is true.
To whoever downvoted this. I used to come to hacker news years ago and see 90% programming related things: Type system abuse, extreme common lisp code, libraries and tools. It was pretty much all tech debate all the time. The worst days would be 70% tech. Today thats a good day.
Nowadays theres a lot more californians being mad at elon, poetic eulogies, paid articles about "how to write good" or how "you should write even if people dont read it."
People will try to say it hasnt changed but it has changed. It is about half as tech related, and about 10 times as reactionary in the same way the rest of the internet has become more dumb.
You can be mad if you want, but everyone can see it, and thats why some people I know in real life are referring to hacker news as orange reddit in a denigrating way. Reading hacker news doesnt confer programming street cred like it did ten years ago. That isnt because im cynical, or want it to be true. It just is true.