I.e., sometimes you just can't separate politics from everything else.
I’ve been saying for years that spite should be viewed as a primary metric for social media. The higher the volume of spite, the more harmful it is and the less useful it is. Hacker News is heading in the wrong direction.
I think there are still good conversations happening here, and I really appreciate the efforts of moderators to keep HN hacky.
I understand younger generations are feeling very disaffected and hopeless. I feel for them. I don’t really have a solution for them and don’t have the power to change it so I’d rather tune it out. Yeah, that makes me a selfish jerk. Ok, cool.
What I see on HN is AI, AI, AI, and then some more AI. Basically nothing else gets any traction, which is frustrating.
I think, in general, the optimism towards tech has degraded a lot in the past couple decades. Which is to be expected, as everyone who sells technology is finding new ways to abuse it every day. Especially for things like AI, it doesn't help that the most optimistic people are basically saying "yeah this is world-ending". The culture-shift isn't unique to hackernews, it's top-down from the entire tech industry, as the tech industry shifts from "cool stuff for nerds" to "tools of mass oppression". That's just sort of what happens when you pump enough money into a sector in our type of economy.
Turns out the clienteles of the two platforms aren’t so different after all. The only difference is what triggers them.
I'm hoping it's bots doing that, and not my fellow, because I don't like to think that my fellow humans are actually this full of hate.
But either way, contributing to HN has become rather unpleasant these days.
> I truly hate what HN has become. It has all the expected comments about Musk, fascism, etc
> HN has turned into reddit. It's highly political with strong anti Israeli and anti USA views.
I could completely understand if you wanted to just read about technical topics rather than say more coverage/condemnation of Israel's genocide that's already covered in many other places. But when you start characterizing the existence of such discussion as "anti Israeli", or criticizing people for merely having the temerity to discuss contemporary fascism, you've gone solidly into politics yourself.
So it would seem you're being disingenuous with this comment - you do like politics, rather you just don't like people discussing glaring elephants in the room that clash with your own political views.
In general, something akin to this has been said at every political movement throughout history. Stop complaining, stop making waves, know your place, stop disrupting order. Such admonishments are not apolitical! Rather they are inherently political - in favor of preserving the status quo.
Our world and our societies are facing many problems. Technology has a part in most of them, which is why discussion of technology tends to surface criticisms. You may desire to live in a bubble where you don't have to see such criticisms, but this is an open public discussion forum and most people are not. Sorry.
Reminds me of "tolerance doesn't mean we have to tolerate things we deem intolerant or we personally don't agree with".
That's fine, you may desire to have political discussions everywhere. I get it, it feels good to believe you're fighting for a good cause. But some of us will scold you, downvote/flag you, and complain about all the noise. Like you said, it's open and public, so we'll just have to let the site's rules and process decide who wins.