iOS-specific tips aside, I found the post helpful for anybody looking to start side-projects out of their comfort zone.

haha ouch... point taken :)

If you are a long time reader you surely must have heard of all this "social bookmarking" thing.

Basically HN readers post articles, and then vote on them. Crazy, I know, the kids these days. Anyway, that's how this article got on Hacker News, and that's why nobody gives a flying duck about your "attention being wasted".

Thus, your sense of entitlement is extremely arrogant, not to mention that your comment was rude. Besides forgetting that HN offers what the HN readers vote on, you also forget that you are perfectly free to skip anything you don't like.

(I should note that I don't agree with you about the blog post, but that isn't that important.)

You have missed an important point about HN -- the comments are usually more interesting than the articles. I have up voted lots of meh articles for the comments.

Its going to cost me some karma but I have to agree with you. Really fluffy content, almost has a self-help feel to it. Don't get me wrong, its as worthy as most blog posts to be on the internet, but getting submitted to HN and being a top post? Maybe there are a lot of HNers that have gotten beaten up by iOS and can sympathize.