Comment by anm89

5 years ago

Is this really what's considered good content on HN at this point? I come here specifically to avoid junk like this.

Disappointing.

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PennRobotics  5 years ago

One of the most popular services of one of the most popular tech companies is pushing content to one of the largest economic participants that is relevant but unusable.

While I didn't mean for this to blow up and was merely venting, I'd like to think my unreplied vim-regex comments were good contributions and valid content for the HN community.

And just for you: Five years ago, the front page had "House sabotages net neutrality", "lawyers suing over We Shall Overcome", "Haitian cholera epidemic started by UN peacekeepers", "coffee shops signal urban change", "how the law is tracking down prank callers", "Merkel allows lawsuit against German comedian"... oh, and a new minor version of Jupyter and Tera were introduced.

I'm sad that you remember HN being different back then.

redis_mlc  5 years ago

Several times I've said that HN should block European IP addresses. Nothing they have to say is relevant in the US.

And pay your own damn defense budgets.

  • PennRobotics  5 years ago

    I'm a U.S. citizen and veteran working for a company with many customers the U.S. and friends working in every reach of the country. I didn't realize I'm not part of the tech scene because of my location.

    Alas, I have paid and do still pay my country's defense budget---financially, physically, emotionally.