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My favorite type of post that shows how worthless and amateur Hacker News is
It's a first semester CS undergrad tier take on some authoritative way to write code according to whomst and it's written in a troonscript language that's opinionated enough as is. There's no real context on why you would do this and any kind of explanation is lacking, meaning they probably wrote it down from some opinionated grad student who hasn't written real code but they look up to them because they don't know better.
The best part? This dogshit was already discussed years ago lol.

That's the crux of Hacker News, you spend enough time on the site you see all the same repeating patterns of useless information upvoted, mostly from the blind leading the blind of inexperienced nobodies.

It's true some big swinging dicks come on there and drop truth nukes but it's like finding a good 4chan post, an unspent fent dose needle in a stacked of used pozzed needles, it just isn't worth trawling through it.
 
My favorite type of post that shows how worthless and amateur Hacker News is
I used to browse HN on the regular between 2015-2020. Back then the two hottest topics where the machine learning being the ultimate solution to everything and the JS frontend framework psychosis. Yet, despite all of that, this kind of garbage would never make it to the front page back then. It's sad to see that a site I once used to respect can now be compared to the garbage that is /r/programming.
 
HN is infested with furries:
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They're talking about that buttplug thing again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44133706
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The comments are full of smug reddit humour which is totally allowed in this thread, but don't you DARE make jokes in my super-important "I rewrote mkdir in Rust and it's 0.0001s faster on this one microbenchmark, validate me" because this isn't Reddit so only serious constructive discussion is allowed!

Of course the only downvoted comments are expressing concern over this:
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Note the snarky replies pretending not to understand the OP of the second image. It's like talking to a Bluesky furfag, who only deflects and acts obtuse to dodge criticism.

Between this, the off-topic politisperging over Blumpf et al., and the non-stop shilling of worthless AI startups, HN deserves to die.
 
There was a thread the other day about PC-98 doujin games and the article had just straight up pornography in (naked women on leashes/in bondage). Everyone complaining got downvoted/flagged. Literally so Reddit-ified that it's ok to have porn now.

I don't even know if they have rules about marking things NSFW because the site is supposed to be the quintessential SFW forum, like it's literally supposed to be related to your work.
 
There's no real context on why you would do this and any kind of explanation is lacking, meaning they probably wrote it down from some opinionated grad student who hasn't written real code but they look up to them because they don't know better.
I do like a dunk just as well as the next fellow, but the wrap up in the top link concludes:

The primary benefit here is performance. Plenty of performance, in extreme cases.
The GOOD version is good, because it avoids repeatedly re-evaluating condition, removes a branch from the hot loop, and potentially unlocks vectorization.
Seems like it is justified? Of course, without benchmarks YMMV...
 
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Wow, this must be a special project - two women working together on something quite technical?
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Imagine using the idealized, artistic vision of you and still just looking like a man in a wig
I'd love to see some kind of study/hard numbers on this, because it's kind of a trope now that whenever I see: "Behold, Linux kernel hacker xyz that works on deep and mysterious video drivers AND IS A GIRL" and then you look and, well I guess it wasn't always the case.

Somehow I don't think this is the "women in tech" that they wanted. Men are now so over-represented in tech they are even taking the womens' seats.
 
I'd love to see some kind of study/hard numbers on this, because it's kind of a trope now that whenever I see: "Behold, Linux kernel hacker xyz that works on deep and mysterious video drivers AND IS A GIRL" and then you look and, well I guess it wasn't always the case.

Somehow I don't think this is the "women in tech" that they wanted. Men are now so over-represented in tech they are even taking the womens' seats.
I try to keep an eye out for any and I don't believe I've found any actual women, at least in open source/public projects. I know they exist: I am friends with one woman who works in software, and one intern I worked with was also a woman, but the common line I see is that it's never their hobby.
 
I've never felt the need to look up who made a game I'm playing because I'm not obsessed with identity.
It's kind of been the opposite for me where projects will have "MADE BY A WOMAN" slathered on the side, so then I get tempted to check behind the scenes. I will agree that most of OG women in tech just quietly bang out code without talking to anyone about it, like probably 95%+ of the males that do it.

Out of the tens of software packages I use each day, I'm not aware of the gender of most of the developers, and that's been true for a long time.

I only noticed this nefarious "women in tech" thing when it started to be trumpeted from the heavens by the likes of Brianna Wu, who made a really big deal about being female.

If anything, it's probably died out a bit lately as the whole tech scene is in a bit of a cooling stage, combined with "trans fatigue" seeping in.
 
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From Lunduke: Hacker News (Dang) is actively participating in covering up the crimes of convicted child rapist Jeremy Bicha by deleting submissions about him.
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I don't think the Jeremy Bicha story is going to go away. I think with crimes as heinous as this it's going to continue to grow.

Meaning the end stage of this will probably be when Hacker News conceals any reference to Lunduke and "breaks the story".
 
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