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HN is like this, complete with people drumming it up by starting the comment off with “Look, folks” and then saying something completely fucking milquetoast about the subject matter.

This only happens on HN because these coders don’t comment on any other social media platform.

Not a traveler, but I have been on HN for almost 15 years now, so I’ve seen this play out far too often to ignore it. This shit can only fool the people who think they’ve discovered gold and are too committed to call it what it is: lipstick on a pig.

Whether or not the commenters on Reddit tend to shitpost AMAs doesn’t speak to the fact that AMAs occur there, and the people give long winded answers to questions and talk at length about things. Literally there are people there whose answers to each question is a blog post entry on HN.

Usually the reason why celebrities/experts pop on comment sections here is to correct others. Which again, is just sad that the community here is naive with misinformation and cargo culling.

I meant to say that it’s common, and very amusing, to see top comments on HN coming in with, to paraphrase, “I work on the thing you’re all commenting on, and you’re very wrong.” I say amusing but it’s fairly fucking sad to see how often that happens. I work in tech hands-on across many domains and the shit that people spew here with apparently credible tones behind the words is worse than any mistake ChatGPT has made so far. If I can’t trust this place with tech, what the hell can I trust it with? Nothing personnel dang you can’t really control the misinformation at this scale.

As for what subreddits are worthwhile - I don’t follow any of them religiously, usually the good stuff is cross posted and even HN has its fair share of good Reddit links much to their chagrin lol. You can often start at the top of the list of popular subreddits as the good stuff is also often cross posted with attribution to the original subreddit. So pick what you’re into and go down the rabbit hole.

Throwaway for a bit of banter.

I like how every time this is brought up, Reddit is used as an example. But Reddit has far, far more interesting and nuanced discussions that includes many people at the top of their respective fields. Nobody noteworthy would do an AMA on HN, but they all do it on Reddit. A comment here or there doesn’t really move the needle on the over all trajectory.

HN is more of a midwit sort of place, where you don’t get the shitposters or the exceedingly brilliant because the band is so narrow and conformist that nobody wants to deal with being downvoted/removed over the most trivial things. And then when people find out just how wrong the audience here can be, as attested by actual professionals usually taking the top comment to correct the majority of, then you really just might as well not bother with HN at all and stick with Reddit for breadth and depth.

So yes, Reddit is probably the better place for this article, along with just about every other article posted here.