Via HN, I became a fan of Derek Sivers and so I listened to his interview recently on Software Engineering Daily. He described the common internet behavior of a person saying "I like X" and a bunch of people reacting with "You are wrong. I don't like X".

There's a big space for empathy in programming. And on Hacker News. And elsewhere. It's probably a project that can keep one busy for as long as they choose to write about it.