Re:How to stay informed without getting paralyzed by bad news
by Tainnor on Monday May 23, 2022 @05:04PM
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This very comment section is a great example. Insulting people who read the news, pretending that all media is just propaganda, anti-intellectualism, etc.
HN is great for tech, it's good to passable for tech-adjacent things (science*, math**) and usually really bad for anything far removed from tech (politics, humanities, philosophy, ...). Which should not be surprising, there is no a priori reason to believe that people experienced with technology should have interesting things to say about other topics.
(*) This excludes heavily politicised science topics.
(**) Though I have yet to see a math submission with more than a handful of comments without somebody complaining (and being upvoted!) about "math is too complicated" or "why don't they just use variables with more than one letter?".
HN is great for tech, it's good to passable for tech-adjacent things (science*, math**) and usually really bad for anything far removed from tech (politics, humanities, philosophy, ...). Which should not be surprising, there is no a priori reason to believe that people experienced with technology should have interesting things to say about other topics.
(*) This excludes heavily politicised science topics.
(**) Though I have yet to see a math submission with more than a handful of comments without somebody complaining (and being upvoted!) about "math is too complicated" or "why don't they just use variables with more than one letter?".