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Re:Samsung is paying $350M for audio brands B&W, Denon, Mara... by immibis on Thursday May 08, 2025 @11:35AM (#43927158)
It's fundamentally still a forum for VCs to VC. You see this periodically where some topic comes up that's completely antithetical to VC, and gets quickly flagged or downvoted to oblivion, even though there may be lively discussion. For example, this occurs when open source licenses are being discussed. The remaining undead comments are the ones favouring licenses that favour venture capital interests.
Re:Samsung is paying $350M for audio brands B&W, Denon, Mara... by pembrook on Thursday May 08, 2025 @12:13PM (#43927650)
I find this fascinating as my impression is usually the exact opposite (all I see is lots of open source fetishism and anti-VC, anti-big tech, anti-AI, anti-risk, anti-new stuff, anti-everything sentiment).

However it could be certain headlines attract a certain type of person, allowing for an entirely different subjective experience of what "people on hacker news" are like.

Re:Samsung is paying $350M for audio brands B&W, Denon, Mara... by immibis on Thursday May 08, 2025 @03:43PM (#43930504)
Please note there are two main branches of open source: there is permissive, which is a donation to venture capitalists, and there is copyleft, which is prohibited from use by venture capitalists unless they play nice. This forum champions the former and is generally opposed to the latter, and the more copyleft it is, the more this forum is against it (LGPL vs GPL vs AGPL vs SSPL).