Hacker news was traditionally an audience that's very hacker orientated. Over the years it's gained a significant portion of audience that are just 'in tech'. Some threads really show the clash between the two IMO.
I agree (though I don’t know if you agree with me)!
I think this post captures what I’d expect from hacker news quite well. A cool single person project messing around, creating something a community can enjoy.
What I don’t like are these weird doom mentality discussions over AGI (as an example), they just make me cringe really badly.
Then again I really can’t complain, all in all I love Hacker News, great topics, great comments!
First there was the excessively dismissive era that spawned the infamous Dropbox comment (Which was widely misunderstood).
Then came the functional programming era, where people worshipped Haskell and frequently got posted to /r/ProgrammingCirclejerk. Eventually we got past that one as people discovered that Haskell isn't really useful for anything besides showing off how you can implement Quicksort in a single line or starting arguments over what the hell a Monad is.
Then there was the needlessly pedantic era, which basically spawned the "ACKCHYUALLY" meme. The pedantry was often a huge distraction, never added anything to the conversation, and often was actually incorrect. If you've ever said "Actually, that's not ray tracing, that's ray casting!", then congrats, you're part of this era.
We're now in the era of being dismissive, not for technical merits like the previous dismissive era, but for being unproductive. Any time a project is done purely for fun or personal reasons (ie, nostalgia), there's someone in the comments talking about how useless it is, and that the time could be better spent Making The World A Better Place(tm)[0].
