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Comment by amelius | Hacker News Reader

Yes. Posts like "How to make $1 million with embarrassingly little work" are always going to make it to the HN frontpage.

Which makes me wonder. Are we here to discuss technology? Or are we here to daydream how we get rich while sleeping?

Also the "hackers" on HN are increasingly buying systems that are built to resist hacking and that have a target audience that can be described as "mom, dad and grandparents". Something feels not right.

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HN has always had those sorts of articles, though you're caricaturing it a bit. More like "how I made $X in $Y months with my $(SaaS|eBook)".

This is a website run by a venture capitalist org, ycombinator.

Yes, and they called it "hacker news".

Believe it or not, at the time, the term had a different connotation

I always thought is was about "growth hacking"? No?

Nope. I'm not sure that growth hacking was even a term then.

It refers to hacking as in messing about with technology to do exciting, fun, unexpected or novel things

And it was almost called "Startup News".

Not just almost, it originally was called that https://web.archive.org/web/20070405175109/https://news.ycom...

The other day I saw a post here asking people about how much they had saved and what their age was. A completely pointless dick-measuring thing, that I thought I wouldn’t find even in the likes of Reddit.

I follow HN on and off, usually just lurking, since 2017. But lately I’ve noticed a surprising amount of people humble bragging about their crypto wallets, their no-work-million-dollars startup, and how good their lives are since they left Facebook.

Those posts have also always been with us. We bury them when we see them, because the interest is not, as you point out, intellectual.

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