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The point of the “trending” page wasn’t that it always showed you React. It showed you tiny repositories that had exploded in popularity that day.

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So what? Why would you drop what you're doing to check out something you don't need to know exists?

I'm not trying to be an asshole: focus is both incredibly hard and the only way to build great things.

There are a countless number of things you're better off doing than checking out new random shit. Those people have already had their success. What are you bringing?

I haven’t participated in this trend-hunting behavior the author describes, but it sounds like it has the main appeal of HN—see new ideas that other people with a similar mindset are talking about. There’s educational and entertainment value to that, and while you’re right time is better spent grinding on projects it certainly sounds appealing to have a window into stuff other people are working on that is also mildly curated.

Fair enough. I'll accept this. :)

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