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Re:IT Runs on Java 8 by tamrix on Saturday May 11, 2019 @06:57PM (#19888898)
I never realised how highly some people praise hackernews comments lol

Hackernews has an _instagram filter_ where everybody brags about how smart they are.

Then there's a bunch of fresh grads who fanboy their favourite tech companies.

Then every so often you get a gem of a comment from knowledge leader in the industry.

But that's quickly overshadowed by 'my Startup, my Startup, mah Startup' and how everybody wants to be rich one day.

But like every larger community in the internet, it eventually derives itself into an echo chamber.

Re:IT Runs on Java 8 by nimih on Sunday May 12, 2019 @04:00PM (#19894166)
Current-day HN strikes me as very similar to early 00s Slashdot, albeit more self-serious and with an ideology more informed by SV capitalism/entrepreneurialism than the convoluted politics of open source software.