Since the beginning of time man has yearned to destroy the sun.
For those that don’t get the reference:
Why so? "Extremely toxic" seems at the least an exaggeration, but I don't see why it's "toxic" at all. Rather than just merely downvoting, the replier is also indicating why they thought the comment was inappropriate, which to my mind sounds constructive.
The lecture about what this community is or isn’t through some imagined position of authority through seniority bothers me. That is extremely toxic.
Bonus points they didn’t bother to check my profile to discover I “got here first” - which only goes to show how ridiculous this position is in the first place.
On HN and elsewhere in my > 20 years in the broader technology community I’ve noticed substantially higher interest in “golden era” Simpsons, Futurama, etc. In my experience and understanding they are part of our culture.
I think it’s a bit of a stretch to call a reference to a single line in an episode that aired in 1995 “Pop Culture”.
I simply added context because a reference to a 27 year old episode from a series that seems to have been well respected in the technology space should not be completely lost on a younger generation of HN readers that don’t recognize it (likely because they hadn’t been born yet).
The fact that plenty of others here got the reference suggests otherwise.