Comment by SirFatty

5 hours ago

If it's not useful, then why create it?

What a depressing thing to read on _hacker_ news of all places

You might want to read this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture

  • Are you telling me hacker news isn't just for advertising vibe coded slop services as a get rich quick scheme? Impossible, why did claude put it in my marketing.md then? (/s in case it isn't obvious)

  • HN isn't reddit, for better and for worse. This is the "Orange Site" that gave us Sam Altman, defends monopolies and shits out thousands of net-negative SaaS startups that leech off Open Source software. Manufacture of depression is one of YC's byproducts that everyone loves to ignore while berating Flock and 9 Mothers like they spontaneously popped into existence.

    Your peers on this website are not principled, fun-loving Freenode/Libera geeks. HN is the Linkdin of underground social networking.

We could say the same for most of the comments on this site, including yours and mine.

There are so many projects that come up here that have the tag line of "This is such a stupid idea that I just had to do it!".

We can do things just for the fun of it. Woz made the Apple computer basically as a toy, nothing more. And that's cool.