Hacker Community Criticism

Downvotes continue. I have seen this story before. For a self-styled "hacker" community this place values orthodoxy an awful lot. And passive aggressiveness to boot. I think it must come from an excess of javascript and VC bullshit. ducksAlso they are unable to tell when I am joking or exaggerating.

Don't be so surprised - it seems that haughty dismissal of all things non-technical is a trademark of geeky communities. See: reddit, slashdot, etc.

Nobody in their right mind would publically express these views in today's Cancel Culture witch-hunting climate. You're probably in a bubble of like-minded people, and mistakingly extrapolating the views expressed in that bubble to the whole developer community.

Sigh. Just more of the elitist ethic so pervasive in the hacker community.

That's a little no-true-scotsman for my tastes. I don't like those people either. But it's hard to say that those people are not part of the Silicon Valley startup community, or the Hacker News community.

This is not something specific to hacker news IMHO. The "cool kids" are ruining the hacking culture, that is, there is an emerging cultural movement of programmers with big stress on critiques, trolling, culture of image (hipster-alike dressing), technology as fashion (always use the latest thing), drink at confs or you are a l00ser, no respect for other people's work, and so forth.Resist to this guys, stay on HN and provide worthwhile comments and votes. They are their selves a brief fashion

> This community is pretty small relative to the overall community of technologists, and it has some biases with respect to places, people, and concepts. I believe you are simply seeing one of those biases emerge as a side effect of the conversation.I don't think so. I think the tech community is pretty much up its own arse and thinks it is god-like and precious.Techies really buy into the 'we are pure', 'we only deal with evidence', 'we are the best', blah-blah. All the great myth of

Hi dang, thank you for taking the time to point that out. I think you are touching on something that's important to understand and overcome. I realized that my wording was poor as I thought more about my comment and you are correct to call me out. I'll try to be as honest/open/guidelined in my response as possible to bare fruit from an aggressive comment.While it might be true that the demographics of the site are 10% SV residents, I do sense a very existent divide here in

I think the interesting is the tech community that used to be liberal and loving turning to something completely the opposite. Blindly following some playbook by "luminaires", and adopting the most awful parts of the discourse.I know I am now going to be voted down, but it's the truth.

It is counter-cultural to the SV VC types on HN.