Is Hacker News Bullshit?
To be fair, it's pretty easy to get top-10 on HN. Heck, I "gamed" the system myself a few times. In other words, yeah, I think a lot of Hacker News is bullshit.<p>Clever "retro" hacks will always gain traction (building a widget out of old vacuum cleaners), anything socio-psychological will usually get traction (dating apps, blog posts about loneliness), anything on advanced math/physics/logic will usually get traction (probably because it makes people feel smart, even though it's not accessible to like 99%), anything tangential to philosophy will get traction (again, makes people feel smart).<p>I really do miss when HN was a bunch of scrappy entrepreneurs that tried to build stuff. With all that said, it's still the best community left on the internet. At least it <i>tries</i> to abide by the principle of charity, and flame wars/trolling is highly frowned upon. Dang and everyone else does a very admirable job of keeping everyone in line.