Ask HN: Where can I have good, technical discussion on random topics?

Re:Ask HN: Where can I have good, technical discussion on ra... by matheusmoreira on Friday August 11, 2023 @03:38PM (#37093002)

Any forum frequented by the hackers whose existence non-hackers have yet to discover. Mailing lists seem to be a good example: they're hard enough to use that non-hackers are filtered out. I'm a programmer and I was nearly filtered out myself.

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Re:Ask HN: Where can I have good, technical discussion on ra... by server_man3000 on Friday August 11, 2023 @05:11PM (#37094088)

It’s a good point. I was on a niche Apache mailing list for a bit and of course I’m talking to the world experts about some niche serialization format from the creator himself et al.

I’m curious if they resent random questions though. For example, if I’m asking Linus about btrees he’s probably going to tell me to fuck off

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Re:Ask HN: Where can I have good, technical discussion on ra... by matheusmoreira on Friday August 11, 2023 @08:48PM (#37095776)

> from the creator himself

This happens here on HN. Examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34180239

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24455758

> if I’m asking Linus about btrees he’s probably going to tell me to fuck off

That's the thing, you know? It's a very unequal world out there. I have many gaps in my knowledge due to lack of formal computer science and engineering education. While I'd very much like to participate, sometimes I feel like it'd be a waste of other people's time to answer my dumb questions. I really don't want to be a help vampire.

ChatGPT turned out to be a great solution to this problem.

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