What 4chan thinks of HN
Sadly, most of the things on there are true. We can try to deny it all we want, but most of the stuff that's there is true. The power of anonymity is that you get to voice honest opinions without tying it up with your identity and/or feeling responsible for it. Of course, this can be argued otherwise too, by citing some (bad) comments as example from that thread, but for the most part, what you see there are honest comments.<p>Some of my favorites:<p>>Why [popular technology] is [unexpected opinion]<p>>Why I have decided to stop using [ Tried and true web dev environment] and start using Meteor<p>>Why [obscure framework] is the next [industry standard framework].<p>>Ask HN: Why is nobody using [obscure niche technology from the 80s]?<p>>[Actually interesting topic] - 0 comments<p>>Can the NSA blow up your PC remotely?<p>>Why you shouldn't store your files locally, but in the cloud<p>>Why it's impossible to use PHP even though millions of people are doing great things with it<p>>Some blog post about scalability... blog crashes after posting link to HN and /r/programming<p>>Show /hn/: I ripped off an existing product and added Bootstrap to it<p>>Pay me $50 to teach you decades old vim features in screencast form<p>>Reasons Why A Basic Income Guarantee Might Just Be A Bad Idea<p>And this is the best:<p>>38090087<p>so the password is password?