How to hack Hacker News (and consistently hit the front page)

Re:How to hack Hacker News (and consistently hit the front p... by johnny22 on Saturday May 13, 2023 @04:46PM (#35932531)

I love that rule. I've gotten called a shill for microsoft many times when I've mentioned some of the cool aspects of their OS design, especially vs Linux.

The thing is, I use linux almost exclusively, but for occasional cross platform testing in a vm.

I really dislike being called a shill just for recognizing some neat ideas.

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Re:How to hack Hacker News (and consistently hit the front p... by twelve40 on Sunday May 14, 2023 @05:35AM (#35936668)

But that's just a sign of the other person's low intelligence and laziness (launching into ad hominem instead of putting in the work to attempt to entertain your point of view).

What's more tiring for me is coming up with incessant caveats that no, i don't have anything to do with this company, no, i don't agree with everything they do but they did one cool thing here, etc etc. Make one remark about e.g. Tesla's technology without those massive caveats and a bunch of people will show up and happily hijack your thread onto a bewildering and useless tangent...

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