We've had these types of threads posted several times before and they've always been fun, though it seems like /g/ are really struggling for material this time around.<p>That said:<p>> [600 points] Why only web development matters (http :// nautil.us medium wordpress theverge gawker .com)
There is some inspired content in that link. My personal fave:<p>We're disrupting the 1gorillion dollar [insert industry] sign up for our beta to check it out[0].<p>[0]We just need your name, address, credit card, and birth date. To verify your a human.[1]<p>[1] and we store all of this in clear text files on our server.[2]<p>[2] which was written using [insert new hipster language] by some guy who's been programming for 3 weeks.[3]<p>[3] but we promise not use your data to mine the shit out of you and sell it to advertisers.[4]<p>[4] jk
It's refreshing to see what people post without fear of retaliation or identification on the web.<p>Gold!<p>"Ask HN: Why won't VCs invest in our dating app, and why is it because we're women founders?"<p>"[1583] We taught 13 women from Sierra Leone node.js"
These are great; my favourites are:<p>> How I rewrote Bash in javascript.<p>> I decided to re-implement Javascript in Javascript. It failed. Here is my story.<p>> [450 points] Why I have private Github repos at my startup but everyone else should give away their software for free.<p>It's so true ;~;
Uninformed opinion I'll try to pass off as insightful and fact-centric by using footnotes [1][2][3].<p>[1] theatlantic.com
[2] theverge.com
[3] blog.tumblr.com
Archive link for future readers : <a href="https://archive.rebeccablacktech.com/g/thread/48696148" rel="nofollow">https://archive.rebeccablacktech.com/g/thread/48696148</a>
I started frequenting HN because I kept encountering these kinds of problems everywhere else. Certain subjects just have more gravity as it were, and when present will inevitably take up all the oxygen in a room. The only way I know to manage it is to isolate it in sub-fora, and be very strict about containment.<p>An important difference between HN and other fourms I frequent(ed) however is that instead of taking offense and going on the defensive when 'attacked' by 4chan, they recognize the joke and find it funny. That alone puts HN lightyears ahead of those other organizations.<p>And regardless of why, it's exactly this kind of self-awareness and identity that enables people to discuss ideas without feeling threatened by them, something which has held back both social and scientific progress in the past.
SJW represent :)<p>I know people that don't read HN because it's too virulently sexist, so having 4chan see it as too SJW is interesting.<p>Will we end up with two "social justice" realities, like we have with vaccination, creationism/evolution and climate change, where it's entirely possible to spend your entire browsing time on sites that agree with your opinions on everything?
Even after many HNers read this thread and appreciate the points being made, I'm sure we'll still see the same "Site I made in unique2me.js" garbage headlines in the top feed. Hopefully what we all take away from this is that we need to better spot patterns of articles/blogspam and self-moderate those submissions.
> Shitty layout from 2003<p>I actually like this layout. It's fast and easy to read, renders ok on mobile and is lightweight. I'm grateful that the maintainers didn't switch to an over-the-top look-at-my-framework.js thing just to make it look modern at the detriment of usability.
Just going to point out that that link contains hate speech directed at women, people of color and the LGBTQ community. I know YCombinator's been talking up diversity as of late, so maybe a good idea to not be linking to hate?
I've been reading HN for 4+ years now, and I think that practically every post in that thread is spot-on. HN has turned into the very thing that I thought the guidelines were designed to prevent. The internet doesn't need another reddit, it's bad enough as it is.<p>HN has become host to feminist shilling and corporate endorsements, on top of the already flawed content model that encourages disengagement to the point where people are just reposting headlines and treating HN as a comments section for the article itself.<p>Either way, there's something to be said for constructive criticism like this, and HN can potentially learn from this.<p>It won't. But it could.