> The comments here are awful. What happened to “Hacker” news?

The contrarian dynamic strikes again: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Your comment is a good example of a corrective post, and the upvotes are deserved, but they get extra energy from this objecting-to-the-objections quality. On the internet, everybody needs something to object to!

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bigyabai 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> but they get extra energy from this objecting-to-the-objections quality.

Should they not? It would be unfair "extra energy" if the comments were fair criticisms, but they're not in the spirit of hacker or entrepreneurial culture. The parent seems to be arguing that most of these comments are entirely ignoring who the product is for to leap to hardware comparisons pre-hoc. And I agree with that conclusion; there is nothing intellectually stimulating or helpful in a discussion about how a dev kit appeals to the broader consumer market.

	▲	ploxiln 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Sometimes it seems like half the comment sections (but probably more like 20% lol) have a "what is wrong with all of you" as the top-rated comment, and I have to scroll way down, 5 or 10 top-level comments, before I find an example that it was referring to. It seems to get more votes by dramatizing the "going against the mainstream", when really it is the mainstream. (Which is kinda sad, but not really the worst thing in world, probably a perennial part of human society ...)