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Comment by kspacewalk2

5 days ago

It's not a hazing ritual, it's a valuable learning experience. Yes, it's nice to have the option of foregoing it, but it's a tradeoff.

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tptacek  5 days ago

So the point of a "Show HN" is to showcase your valuable learning experience?

  • discreteevent  5 days ago

    What the article is saying is:

    "the author (pilot?) hasn't generally thought too much about the problem space, and so there isn't really much of a discussion to be had. The cool part about pre-AI show HN is you got to talk to someone who had thought about a problem for way longer than you had. It was a real opportunity to learn something new, to get an entirely different perspective."

    • tptacek  5 days ago

      Right, so it's about the person and how they've qualified themselves, and not about what they've built.

      I feel like I've been around these parts for a while, and that is not my experience of what Show HN was originally about, though I'm sure there was always an undercurrent of status hierarchy and approval-seeking, like you suggest.

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  • overgard  5 days ago

    I think the valuable learning experience can be what makes a Show HN worth viewing, if it's worth viewing. (I don't feel precious about it though.. I didn't think Show HN was particularly engaging before AI either)

  • kspacewalk2  4 days ago

    No, the point of building things the hard way, things that you'll be proud to show HN if it works out, is to acquire a valuable learning experience.