Re:Urban Dictionary on Hacker News (2013)
by kortilla on Saturday August 21, 2021 @03:48PM
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It has nothing to do with free time. It’s just a numbers game. There are a lot more employees than there are entrepreneurs.
Re:Urban Dictionary on Hacker News (2013)
by Causality1 on Saturday August 21, 2021 @03:32PM
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A browser extension with some custom filtering rules could be handy. I'd love to never open another blog post from someone who thinks finding out that becoming internet famous for two days is bad for you is some kind of revolutionary insight and that everyone needs to hear about how stressful it was to be tweeted at a lot.
In practice it tends to be mostly content from bored engineers. Any social website like HN is inherently biased toward people with the most time to burn, because they have the most time to post. It turns out a lot of modern engineering jobs have a lot of free time at your desk in front of a computer, so those are the people who post here most.
The actual entrepreneurs are usually too busy to post too much on HN so they aren’t heavily represented. Not absent, of course, but it’s hard to compete with the people who seem to have infinite free time for social discussions.
HN can be interesting, but it’s really difficult at times to separate the signal from the noise. There’s a lot of noise.