Downvoted. I like the article and find it refreshing compared to the "I built X in Y" and such, and your comment is not informative. If you don't like the article, just skip the comments and read something you believe is more related to hackers.
>>Admins, the community is telling you something: this site has become a Reddit clone with a more highbrow tone.
Please, don't speak in the name of the community. Actually, it's the main reason I downvoted you.
The community spoke, by voting up this submission: he just translated those votes into words, while reasonably pointing out that the community speaking now is not saying the same thing it was saying when he was initially attracted to this site.
While I can't see how much he's been upvoted, I suspect many feel the same way he does. I certainly do. HackerNews of late has very little to differentiate it from other discussion sites like reddit and MetaFilter.
Part of what makes a community like this is the diversity of intellectual stimulation. If all we read about was hacker stuff, we would start to suffer from homogenization of thought.
Another huge benefit of non-hacker submissions that you clearly overlook is that it gets hackers out of the Silicon Valley tunnel vision and starts to get them thinking about other industries, cities, countries, and problems.
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Downvoted. I like the article and find it refreshing compared to the "I built X in Y" and such, and your comment is not informative. If you don't like the article, just skip the comments and read something you believe is more related to hackers.
>>Admins, the community is telling you something: this site has become a Reddit clone with a more highbrow tone.
Please, don't speak in the name of the community. Actually, it's the main reason I downvoted you.
The community spoke, by voting up this submission: he just translated those votes into words, while reasonably pointing out that the community speaking now is not saying the same thing it was saying when he was initially attracted to this site.
While I can't see how much he's been upvoted, I suspect many feel the same way he does. I certainly do. HackerNews of late has very little to differentiate it from other discussion sites like reddit and MetaFilter.
I liked it too. It's just not hacker news. It's not even news. I'd seen it before on a mainstream site.
I like to see hacker news on Hacker News.
Part of what makes a community like this is the diversity of intellectual stimulation. If all we read about was hacker stuff, we would start to suffer from homogenization of thought.
Another huge benefit of non-hacker submissions that you clearly overlook is that it gets hackers out of the Silicon Valley tunnel vision and starts to get them thinking about other industries, cities, countries, and problems.