undefined | Better HN

0 pointswegfawefgawefg1y ago0 comments

sure but thats true about the entire internet.

people dont come here for sad life stories they come here for hacker news.

if people post stuff like this I cant find the cool tech news, and people who want to post or see cool tech news wont post or comment on it either. there is a dynamic range of attention on the front page and this consumes it. I see it as an emotional ddos attack. Because you cant criticize it. If you do people get mad. This post is like a viral email that tells you to resend or else you hate jesus or something.

Plus it just violates common sense. why dont i go to cats.com to see some cats. oh thats weird its all sad posts about dogs that ran away. "why dont we post that on dogs.com". then they get mad at me because its insensetive or something. sucks dogs ran away but why even come to cats.com if its all dog posts. Half of hacker news posts are midlife crisis posts some days and when it hits that threshold i cant find anything about lisp or compilers or whatever, I leave and dont come back for months and then you lose the tech interest. curation is important.

somebody died. thats sad. makes u sad. maybe deep to some people. but its not hacking news.

theres nothing novel about this post or perspective anyway. somebody important dies in your life you get sad and have to rebuild and forget. youll have to redesign your own personal religion to get through it. it sucks this person was sad. its the worst thing in the world to them. hope they get better. okay but i dont want to see it on coolcatpics.com.

and THIS is HACKER NEWS.

0 comments

coldpie1y ago

Sometimes you gotta pick your battles. I don't think this is one you're going to win. Best to find a way to live with it, like using the Hide feature :)

wegfawefgawefgOP1y ago

i watched some of my favorite irc channels degrade due to lack of curation. theyre dead now. it isnt that nobody is online. the culture was just totally lost. they used to be cool places where people helped eachother code and would talk about math, now they are erotic role play and trans safespaces.

the code people left.

coldpie1y ago

Yeah I get it. I'm just saying screaming at a community that they're doing it wrong is a low success rate method, and will probably only further frustrate you. Better to learn to go with the flow and do your small part to influence it; or else find a place that suits you better.

1 more reply

Out_of_Characte1y ago

>ive got like three major deaths in my family and more coming.

>this is just poetic literature

>theres nothing novel about this post

There's certainly something in there that I can agree with. Though I dont think you'd appreciate the irony as well as I do.

wegfawefgawefgOP1y ago

eh im not sensetive. sounds interesting. lets hear it.

(to comment on the deaths im in my early thirties. big family members are going. step dad died of cancer when i was 17. had a near death experience once or twice.

at some point you just accept death is a part of life. you dont want people to die. youve been through the recovery twice before. you dont wish it on other people. but the artistic wallowing doesnt do anybody any good. because youre only getting out on your own. when i catch my friends doing it i slap them.

now theres a big difference in my case since I was a man and the author was a woman (and pregnant). her social circumstance probably treats her like she has intrinsic value. allegedly i dont.

anyways im here for tech news. my step dad would have showed me hacker news 15 years ago if he had known i cared. and if he had, id hope it has fucking tech news on it like it presumably would have had he bothered. (he was a programmer))

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

0 pointswegfawefgawefg1y ago0 comments

sure but thats true about the entire internet.

people dont come here for sad life stories they come here for hacker news.

somebody died. thats sad. makes u sad. maybe deep to some people. but its not hacking news.

and THIS is HACKER NEWS.

0 comments

coldpie1y ago

Sometimes you gotta pick your battles. I don't think this is one you're going to win. Best to find a way to live with it, like using the Hide feature :)

wegfawefgawefgOP1y ago

the code people left.

coldpie1y ago

1 more reply

Out_of_Characte1y ago

>ive got like three major deaths in my family and more coming.

>this is just poetic literature

>theres nothing novel about this post

There's certainly something in there that I can agree with. Though I dont think you'd appreciate the irony as well as I do.

wegfawefgawefgOP1y ago

eh im not sensetive. sounds interesting. lets hear it.

(to comment on the deaths im in my early thirties. big family members are going. step dad died of cancer when i was 17. had a near death experience once or twice.

now theres a big difference in my case since I was a man and the author was a woman (and pregnant). her social circumstance probably treats her like she has intrinsic value. allegedly i dont.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse