Urban Dictionary on Hacker News (2013)

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hacker%20news

by 5faulker • 5 years ago

342 183 5 years ago

topicseed• 5 years ago

A website where unsuccessful entrepreneurs with egos waste time browsing articles and websites, created by wanna-be entrepreneurs with even bigger egos who are trying to build a following.
A place unknown to financially successful entrepreneurs.

I always thought the bulk of HN was not entrepreneurs but employed engineers, curious minds, etc. Have I been deluded all this time?

pkdpic_y9k2• 5 years ago

Well, Im a shameless imposter masquerading as an employed software engineer. Thats one. Or two maybe assuming you are?

meristohm• 5 years ago

My primary work title is Dad/Homemaker, and I have an interest in software development for improving learning, for one.

PragmaticPulp2• 5 years ago

HN is part of Y Combinator (obvious from the URL) so there has always been a bias toward entrepreneurship and startups.

In practice it tends to be mostly content from bored engineers. Any social website like HN is inherently biased toward people with the most time to burn, because they have the most time to post. It turns out a lot of modern engineering jobs have a lot of free time at your desk in front of a computer, so those are the people who post here most.

The actual entrepreneurs are usually too busy to post too much on HN so they aren’t heavily represented. Not absent, of course, but it’s hard to compete with the people who seem to have infinite free time for social discussions.

HN can be interesting, but it’s really difficult at times to separate the signal from the noise. There’s a lot of noise.

Causality1• 5 years ago

A browser extension with some custom filtering rules could be handy. I'd love to never open another blog post from someone who thinks finding out that becoming internet famous for two days is bad for you is some kind of revolutionary insight and that everyone needs to hear about how stressful it was to be tweeted at a lot.

kortilla2• 5 years ago

It has nothing to do with free time. It’s just a numbers game. There are a lot more employees than there are entrepreneurs.

EamonnMR• 5 years ago

The original core audience was Paul Graham fans as far as I know. I think I found HN because it was the thing Arc was used for.

praptak• 5 years ago

Count me in that group. I am a refugee from Slashdot, after I had found out I hated their new threading UI.

wayeq• 5 years ago

I always thought the bulk of HN was tech folks that got too old and grumpy for reddit.

cblconfederate2• 5 years ago

judging from the upvoted topics there are probably more marketing/hr/managerial people now than engineers/scientists

onion2k3• 5 years ago

I'm pretty sure there are at least four or five HN users who have a net worth in the hundreds of millions of dollars. We're not all unsuccessful.

smoldesu• 5 years ago

Seems about right to me.

beeboop2• 5 years ago

I think we all make the mistake sometimes of attaching too much weight to the opinions we read online. For some reason I attach more weight to HN opinions but after meeting a few frequent HN posters in real life and seeing recent discussions about vaccines, I no longer do this.

I realize this is a really shitty post and I wish I had the time to rework it to sound less prissy.

pkdpic_y9k2• 5 years ago

Interesting (also funny), I never thought of HN from that angle. Does this feel true to HN users or is it more a joke?

While I was transitioning to a software job I found myself checking HN a lot because it seemed like a raw discussion forum for what software engineers were thinking / talking about. Seemed better than Reddit. Still haven't found a better alternative.

Nevermark5• 5 years ago

I think for some of us remote workers ...

[... Ha, my entire career! So we call it "remote" now? And its considered a progressive perk? Awesome! For decades I just thought I was "working in bed" and it wasn't something to talk about ...]

... really do need a facsimile for interesting and stimulating water cooler conversation. Until I find that place, Hacker News will do!

yoz-y• 5 years ago

At least the part about wasting time does. Luckily there is the noprocrast option.

t-writescode• 5 years ago

I’m sure we’ve all seen posts here from people that make us think very unkindly of the HN culture.

psyc• 5 years ago

Such a missed opportunity. There are so many funnier tropes about HN to mock. Personally, I think of HN as a place for software developers to pontificate and nerd-snipe about constitutional law, public health, economics, and more.

smoe• 5 years ago

From my perspective HN is big enough that you can shape your own experience by what links you are clicking. E.g. I feel I haven't seen that much of the "entrepreneur" aspect, because I don't frequent the typical startup topics much. Instead I'm interested in the more timeless "philosophical" discussions about software engineering in general where I always feel I get something out of it or encounter further readings. Nothing live changing so far, but interesting nonetheless.

blululu• 5 years ago

This was from 2013. The general climate here has turned pretty hostile to startups since then. The prevailing advice here is now to land a FAAMG job and slack off with a high standard of living, rather than slaving away at a startup to boost someone else’s capital. What remains is people sharing their side projects, going off-topic and wasting their time one way or another.

cortesoft• 5 years ago

When did FAANG become FAAMG?

kartoshechka• 5 years ago

it's the comment from the recent post "who else would put M in FAANG besides a Microsoft employee?"

Nevermark5• 5 years ago

I had not come across FAAMG but I like it, even if I have trouble saying it. ("MAGAF"? Hmmm. "GAAMF"?)

Netflix has never been an aspirational overlord type company like the others.

Even though Microsoft is no longer at its peak, its dual presence via OS and cloud keep it in sustainable wannabe overlord position.

ThrowawayB7• 5 years ago

When the people who had been laughing at Microsoft for years as being a washed up has-been came to the realization that it currently has a valuation of over $2 trillion and is still growing.

StreamBright• 5 years ago

When Microsoft started to take Javascript seriously.

sxp• 5 years ago

Personally, I still use FAANG and assume the N stands for N\icrosoft.

Bayart• 5 years ago

When Microsoft resurrected from the dumpster of tech and became proactive again.

PragmaticPulp2• 5 years ago

The general climate here has turned pretty hostile to startups since then. The prevailing advice here is now to land a FAAMG job and slack off with a high standard of living

Some times I stumble upon really old HN threads in Google searches and end up missing the quality of old HN discourse. It was never perfect, of course. Nor is the modern version without upsides, as there are often good pieces of wisdom if you sift through enough noise in the comments.

However, modern HN just feels so deeply cynical, angry, and negative with much less of the entrepreneurial tech optimism of the older posts. It’s also starting to feel weirdly disconnected from reality in the way that the extremes of Twitter, Reddit, and Facebook have become echo chambers after consuming non-stop bad news. It’s like people read so many outrage tech stories here that they forget there is an upside to the tech industry.

Big Tech hangs in a weird balance where we’re simultaneously supposed to hate and distrust FAANG companies but also at the same time we’re told to seek out FAANG jobs where we can maximize compensation.

The key to enjoying HN is to ignore any thread remotely related to politics, FAANG, social media, economics (where the comments are actually just about politics), drugs, or open-source drama.

Sadly, the most interesting content links (great blog posts, writings, knowledge, new projects, and so on) generally get fewer upvotes than outrage topics. I try to make a point of actively upvoting the content I want to see here every time I visit.

N1H1L• 5 years ago

I think we are all older now?

6510• 5 years ago

Politics should be interesting to a programmer if one can write a program or use data to do something useful. (or talk about doing that) You have to force the conversation in that direction. Like for a chemist everything is about chemistry. They know its not but pretending sure makes things a lot more interesting.

schmorptron• 5 years ago

I haven't been browsing this site for more than like a year, but have found it one of the places on the internet where political discourse seems to be relatively tame and good-faith for the most part. I've also learned a lot from the blog posts you mentioned and really knowledgeable comments on them. Is it really worse now?

na85• 5 years ago

However, modern HN just feels so deeply cynical, angry, and negative with much less of the entrepreneurial tech optimism of the older posts. It’s also starting to feel weirdly disconnected from reality in the way that the extremes of Twitter, Reddit, and Facebook have become echo chambers after consuming non-stop bad news. It’s like people read so many outrage tech stories here that they forget there is an upside to the tech industry.

I dunno, I think the current atmosphere is more closely aligned with the zeitgeist of society writ large than it was previously.

That famed entrepreneurial optimism was born of a belief that technology is inherently good, and that startups can change the world.

The veil has been lifted and we see that most startups, internet startups in particular, exist to provide lucrative exits for the owners while abusing their users by harvesting data and selling ads.

The promise of a tech-led utopia is a hollow farce. It's a facade for the surveillance dystopia that big Internet companies are creating.

With every iteration, user experience takes a back seat to developer convenience, and devices are more powerful yet feel sluggish because of the mountains of shitty abstraction layers piled on. The companies that wield inordinate power are giant faceless corporations acting with impunity and whose decisions have no recourse.

Being a tech user is an exercise in frustration. The world sucks and Tech is making it worse.

AdrianB1• 5 years ago

The reduction in optimism may be related to the increased experience with the topics discussed? For example the internet boom of 2000 was caused by hyper-optimism, then people learned to be more moderate and Internet really took off. By comparison, the generation of 2003-2005 was less optimistic, but not in a bad way.

teatree2• 5 years ago

So, is there another place on Internet which is better than HN?

ethelward2• 5 years ago

However, modern HN just feels so deeply cynical, angry, and negative with much less of the entrepreneurial tech optimism of the older posts

Isn't that a direct reflection of the current state of the tech world? Since the 00's, it has morphed from a rather hacker-friendly, digital far-west into a locked-down plutocracy dominated by a handful of gigantic corporations, whose end-goal are quite often to squeeze every single last bit of personal information or other valuable commodity they can out of, typically, misinformed users.

E.g., despite all the folklore, I feel much better toward 00's ‶Linux is cancer″ MS and their Windows 2000 than toward 2020's ‶We <3 Linux″ MS that just spy on me through Windows 10 and put ads in my start menu.

Similarly, I prefer the 90's ‶we're making expensive and original computers″ Apple to the 2020's ‶we will scan all the photos on your device″ Apple.

And it's not to single these two out, they're just the first examples I'm thinking of. All in all, I just believe the whole digital world is much more hostile now than it used to be, which would, at least partially, account for the growing apathy, cynicism and defiance in the community – it's hard to feel any different when every other week brings a new personal data leak, spyware scandal or privacy-infringement affair, be it corporate- or state-sponsored.

kilroy123• 5 years ago

My account is now older than a decade so I guess I'm an OG here. (crazy) There's definitely been a big shift over the years. But, I feel like this is just the general state of the world right now.

The entire industry back then was so much more optimistic.

Personally, I only browser: https://news.ycombinator.com/classic

orhmeh09• 5 years ago

Not everyone is the same as you. I enjoy immensely reading HN posts and comments related to politics, FAANG, social media, economics (where the comments are actually just about politics), drugs, or open-source drama. I also like interesting content links (great blog posts, writings, knowledge, new projects, and so on). I don’t get this mix elsewhere and it’s why I come here. Are you in the right community?

bartimus• 5 years ago

Or we're just getting older. Software tech has become less of a disruptive novelty. Younger generations are entering the scene with different ideals. They desire meaningful capitalism (in a political sense). This also brings new opportunities.

kbenson2• 5 years ago

This is my favorite online place to waste time, after all. And yes, I've given up any dreams of starting my own thing. You pretty much just described me, except not FAAMG (but I am happy where I'm at).

I don't mind this description at all (there's a freedom in giving up even just the dream of the hustle).

M5x7wI3CmbEem10• 5 years ago

where is this advice lol?

Nevermark5• 5 years ago

It is good humor.

An Onion article would be even greater praise.

On a more serious note, I for one plan on continuing to lurk and comment here until I achieve the unprecedented entrepreneurial financial success that I know my lurking and commenting here more than qualify me for!

weare138• 5 years ago

https://www.theolognion.com/ai-solves-all-political-economic...

elipsey• 5 years ago

We're not _all_ unsuccessful entrepreneurs, I for one am an unemployed programmer!

hellbannedguy• 5 years ago

The first thing I thought was Mark Cuban was the wrong guy to use as an example.

(Always felt Cuban got lucky during the early days of the gold rush. I feel that way about most financially successful people though?)

I think that definition missed a few HN personality types.

It forgot unsuccessful, lonely, egotistical, disenfranchised, shut-in's---like myself.

preommr• 5 years ago

The first thing I thought was Mark Cuban was the perfect guy to use as an example.

It made me trigger even more for the exact reason you mentioned.

halgir• 5 years ago

Reminds me of when 4chan pretended to be Hacker News.

Thread archive: https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/48696148

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9788317

0x7373682• 5 years ago

4chan often had(maybe still has, dunno haven't checked up on anons for a while) a fantastic feel for irony, satire and parody(including of themselves). People unfairly disregard the true internet comedy gold that 4chan has gifted to society.

brailsafe2• 5 years ago

It's not too bad, but I'd only go up to comedy silver.

User23• 5 years ago

It’s amusing that 4chan is the something awful forum’s fault. I was reminded of this by the phrase “comedy gold.”

kbenson2• 5 years ago

I bet a lot of those 4chan commenters we're HN users or lurkers. The best criticism comes from those closest.

Cipater2• 5 years ago

4chan is the single most hostile website to me and people like me. People can't even watch porn there without first stating how much they hate black people.

I don't doubt there are interesting discussions to be had there (it is filled with nerds after all) but the userbase is very clear about who is welcome there.

They're also virulently antisemitic.

brailsafe2• 5 years ago

Not half bad

0-_-0• 5 years ago

How we moved from MongoDB to a thousand Chinese children memorizing numbers and you should too! [medium.com]

smnrchrds• 5 years ago

MongoDB

Snapchat for your production data.

enbugger• 5 years ago

Chinese children considered harmful

hjek• 5 years ago

That 4chan link is full of the vilest antisemtism, racism, etc.

natchy2• 5 years ago

The vilest? Not even. That was a mild 4chan thread.

ng12• 5 years ago

Yep, it's their way of gatekeeping.

2OEH8eoCRo0• 5 years ago

That's hilarious, it's healthy to be able to laugh at yourself. Thanks for sharing!

cucumb3rrelish• 5 years ago

not even 5 messages in and there is the first nazi carricature. certified 4chan moment

tyingq• 5 years ago

[420 points] Show HN: I ripped off an existing product and added Bootstrap to it

That page is actually pretty funny here and there.

aesh2Xa1• 5 years ago

Anonymous Fri 26 Jun 2015 17:31:37 No.48696861 Report [200 points] Using machine learning to identify dick pics (facebook.com)

I just came from the “EFF writes a letter to Tim Cook about CSAM” article. I guess we’ve confirmed the parody.

avaldes• 5 years ago

Ruby considered harmful

I mean...

28255788• 5 years ago

No.48701403, Sat 27 Jun 2015 13:33:02
Additionally, the following words MAY NOT be used in variable or function names: master, slave, he, him, his.

Prescient.

sillysaurusx5• 5 years ago

A place unknown to financially successful entrepreneurs.

That's because YC founders fled to Bookface many years ago, YC's internal Hacker News.

A YC founder once saw me browsing HN and said "Huh, are you on Bookface?"

I realized later that he'd never been to HN.

gonehome• 5 years ago

That’s sad, I wish they were still active here.

jimhi• 5 years ago

We are. Most threads have at least one. I find the longer they have been out of yc the less they are here though

dang4• 5 years ago

Last I checked, the rate of participation of YC alumni on HN had been stable for many years. It was a couple years ago that I ran the numbers, but I doubt that it has changed much since then.

eddieh• 5 years ago

That, perhaps, explains the sometimes unexpected anti-business/capitalist comments and sentiment here.

novok• 5 years ago

So by bookface you mean a facebook group

sillysaurusx5• 5 years ago

I really want to say "yes" and see where the conversation leads.

No, I meant Bookface, YC's internal clone of Hacker News.

1123581321• 5 years ago

Indeed. There is missing representation in conversations here that make those absences conspicuous. You can see a similar effect on, for example, a company Slack channel, and figure out which groups of employees are having the same conversation on a private channel. Nothing wrong with it unless the members of the side group are obliged to participate in general conversation, and they aren’t here.

dang4• 5 years ago

YC founders haven't "fled" to Bookface (let alone "many years ago") and it's not at all accurate to describe BF as "internal Hacker News".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22389362

sillysaurusx5• 5 years ago

I had a reply lined up for you, but I don't want to risk my account yet again.

tptacek• 5 years ago

Nobody who has ever laid eyes on Bookface could possibly believe that it's a replacement for HN. It's a very different scene, more like Craigslist than Reddit. It would be weird to "hang out" there. Nobody has "fled" HN to Bookface.

jstx14• 5 years ago

There is also https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitHNSays/. It's not that active but it has quite a few gems.

midwestemo• 5 years ago

Probably my favorite one on there.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25791306

kirykl• 5 years ago

There’s also a critical HN parody site http://n-gate.com/hackernews/ Copy paste url as it apparently intercepts the HN referer

goodpoint2• 5 years ago

n-gate is my favorite read. It restores my sanity.

mypastself• 5 years ago

2021 version would have to include:

Upvote anything with Rust, Go, SQLite, or Haskell in the title; use the words “orthogonal” and “Pareto” as much as possible.

Hate SPAs, Docker, crypto, and someone using the word “crypto” for cryptocurrency.

enlyth• 5 years ago

Javascript bad, peak UI was Windows 95, mention screen readers in every post about interfaces

asien2• 5 years ago

Or the the history of how oracle created a world wide conspiracy to impose Java has a standard , and if they hadn’t done so Haskell/ Clojure / ( Anything that’s not OOP) would be running everything from Operating System to Back End.

That damn Oracle Conspiracy, and OOP !

krapp2• 5 years ago

Hacker News = everything that came after my adolescence is terrible and everyone needs to know that.

Twitter: A rabid pack of shrieking, pitchfork wielding neo-Marxist SJWs ruining people's lives with impunity.

Facebook: their boomer Neo-Nazi anti-vaxxer parents captured by CIA mind-control and agitprop.

Youtube: nothing but low-effort monetized clickbait and also leftist propaganda, because Google.

Instagram: also nothing but low-effort monetized clickbait, but also porn.

Tiktok: CCP propaganda but also for some reason we really like it, at least until the novelty wears off.

Reddit: just mouth-breathing imbeciles posting cat pictures and memes. Good thing we're better than them, and point out that fact to ourselves at every opportunity.

The entire rest of the web: shit, except for 4chan.

Movies: shit.

TV: shit.

Music: shit.

TFA: never bothered reading it, but I'll assume this rant about cultural marxism is relevant.

Books: Do they even still make physical books? I thought paper went obsolete in 2019.

Science: lies, damn lies and statistics.

Media: lies, damn lies and more lies.

Other people: hell.

Emoji: BLIND RAGE

Technology: What is with all these buttons and blinking lights, what does any of this even do? Why would anyone need anything more than a Lisp REPL in a bare terminal?

Code: JAVASCRIPT DELENDA EST. Everything but Rust and Lisp are shit and PHP literally gives you brain cancer.

Society: Ted Kaczynski was right about everything. Burn it all down and return to monke.

Your stupid project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Hacker News itself: used to be good, but now it's turning into Reddit. Who let these people in here? I bet half of them have never even written a compiler.

jstx14• 5 years ago

"Pareto" is so 2010.

dennis_moore• 5 years ago

Upvote anything with Rust, Go, SQLite, or Haskell in the title; use the words “orthogonal” and “Pareto” as much as possible.

Don't forget Julia!

goodpoint2• 5 years ago

Hate docker? It's overhyped like Rust and Go in here.

adventured• 5 years ago

Hey Mr. Cuban, did you see that post on Hacker News?

It's amusing that's the supporting point line, because whoever wrote the entry is placing their self in the category they're trying to peg HN with. I was in business with Mark across a bunch of years, he has always had an interest in news, news aggregation sites, information acquisition and delivery in general. He was familiar with Hacker News, including understanding its association with Y Combinator, and he always liked it when BlogMaverick posts hit the front page. He understood its relevance in the tech ecosystem.

For years after Mark set up his venture capital business, he (his team) used Y Combinator's various public docs as the foundation for the investment agreements.

blastonico• 5 years ago

Perfectly described, now I'll search for WallStreetBets, that I visit very frequently.

thrower123• 5 years ago

Seems relatively accurate

conradfr• 5 years ago

I would have been more interested in the Encyclopedia Dramatica page about HN ;)

willis9362• 5 years ago

I'm surprised there is no Encyclopedia Dramatica entry on Hacker News.

api• 5 years ago

HN is a lot of /r/iamverysmart except some people actually know something.

beeboop2• 5 years ago

The problem is that it's often impossible to know if the person commenting has any idea what they're talking about

based2• 5 years ago

everything2 used to be more like that.

asien2• 5 years ago

I find funny because it’s accurate !

99% of entrepreneur fail , that’s literally why it’s hard and why it’s highly respected !

Remember when Tesla almost went Bankrupt ? It’s very like because it happens almost three times... and only now after 25+ years Tesla is making a profit by selling its cars without sorcery finances...

Being an entrepreneur is hard , I love the Tesla example because even if Elon Musk had the vision and a superior engineering delivery , the company was technically a commercial failure for more than a decade.

Being a better than average engineer ( probably a LOT of HN uses ) is unfortunately not enough to become a sucessfull entrepreneur !

bob229• 5 years ago

Tesla was founded 18 years ago…

Rd6n6• 5 years ago

I like hacker news for tech news and career subjects, but indie hackers is where the founders seem to hang out. If I need to talk to somebody about bootstrapping, ih is great. A lot fewer technical people though, lots of site builders and no code setups. Hn users can write a bst in their sleep but ih users can make a landing and validate an idea while building a mailing list in their sleep

leephillips2• 5 years ago

Fair or not, but more and more lately, when searching the web for a useful take on a framework, library, language, or anything else related to computers, I put in a "site:news.ycombinator.com". This way I skip past the multiple pages of blogspam, advertising (disguised or otherwise), and people copying each other's top-ten lists, and might actually see a thoughtful comment or someone's real experience.

FabHK• 5 years ago

In DuckDuckGo, you could use the !hn bang (which takes you to hn's Algolia search page).

leephillips2• 5 years ago

Thanks for pointing that out. Can also use the search box at the bottom of HN pages.

self_buddliea• 5 years ago

I'm aware of the philosophy behind HN and the dictionary entry alludes to this. From my experience it's more focussed on technology and a liking of knowledge in general.

On the other hand, I still find this amusing.

donaldihunter2• 5 years ago

This thread! Talking about ourselves in an ironic / un-ironic / post-ironic way. There is room for more meta hacker news.

black_13• 5 years ago

An accurate definition

neals• 5 years ago

can confirm, am unsuccesful

EMRZ2• 5 years ago

One thing i noticed is that most of the conversation here feels alien to me.

I think this is because most of the people here are living in California and they seem to have a very particular world view not always compatible or even undertandable for anyone from any other place.

I used to enjoy this website in like, 2015/16 i think, now the topics are not even tech related anymore.

systemvoltage4• 5 years ago

Algorithms governing large amounts of information exchange in the world are all developed in California (Twitter/FB/Google) as well.

SV's political culture (and largely America's culture) is being exported to the world at an ever increasing pace: https://www.economist.com/international/2021/06/12/social-me...

Edit: Of course downvotes!

seneca• 5 years ago

SV's political culture (and largely America's culture) is being exported to the world at an ever increasing pace

The valley's culture has little in common the the rest of America's. It "exporting" its culture to the rest of the US as much as it is anywhere else, though I'd personally characterize it more as imperialism than exporting.

javajosh• 5 years ago

This is a reflection of how engineers have become aware of the ethical and political effects of their work. To HN's credit the non-technical discussions are of high quality, in general.

From a purely technical standpoint, HN remains the best forum for discovery of new projects and giving feedback to FAANG. (M not so much).

dang4• 5 years ago

Fewer than 10% of HN users are in the Bay Area. I don't know what the number for California is but I'd be surprised if it were above 15%. Half of the userbase is outside the U.S. People make a lot of false assumptions about the demographics here.

HN has always had a mix of topics. That hasn't changed.

austinjp• 5 years ago

Are there stats on the location:activity ratio? Are people in some locations more verbose than others?

Qub3d• 5 years ago

Interesting, what is the next highest cohort, though? 10% may still be enough to dominate conversation if its a big enough plurality.

This is a vote-driven website, and while maybe less prone to the bandwagon effects on, say, reddit, it still happens that if a group of people begin to vote up a post or comment, it will have strong momentum to gain further votes.

I've seen you post this verbatim comment before and it always feels a little like a shallow dismissal.

Maybe its worth someone taking the HN Kaggle dataset and doing a keyword analysis. Demographics are one thing, the topics themselves should be studied.

France_is_bacon2• 5 years ago

Huh...could you give examples of what is not compatible or not comprehensible in California, but not elsewhere?

I'd love to know.

EMRZ2• 5 years ago

I mean, it is actually comprehensible but you know, California tech workers live in a monopoly money bubble and they think they know something about how the world works. Also they think that their own "culture" and leftist values are relevant to everywhere in the world even if they cant even point places on a map.

I will get banned if i talk more.

nicbou• 5 years ago

I'm neither part of the tech nor startup scene. I'm happy to see more variety in the content, as long as it's high quality and has interesting comments.

To be frank, work is work and I don't care so much to read about it. I care even less about drama at other companies.

azangru• 5 years ago

Entrepreneurs? Dang, I thought this was a forum for programmers.

longtom• 5 years ago

hacker news

Where opinion is being manipulated by the U.S. security/military complex.

unityByFreedom• 5 years ago

Haha this is funny. Don't take it so seriously folks ;-)

doctor_eval• 5 years ago

Isn’t urban dictionary maintained by ESR?

Urban Dictionary on Hacker News (2013)

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