HN lore: a news submission that gets flagged is removed from the listing of posts on HN and basically hidden.
It’s interesting because there are a bunch of comments basically agreeing with the statements re Palestine and against a genocide, and of course that means it gets flagged.
Bonus: casual Irish racism - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37976176
Given Irish history, and this person’s Irish origin, I can understand how, in an unguarded and possibly reflexive moment, he could see this as merely support for a smaller, inferior, insurgent force against a larger, militarily superior occupying force, as this can be argued to loosely parallel Irish 20C history involving Britain.
At the same time, I’m surprised because this person organized a cosmopolitan gathering, and it seems likely that he would have adopted a more cosmopolitan and sensitive attitude.
I suppose the old adage is true, “The tree may leave the forest, but its roots are still in the soil.”
if there’s one thing that’s consistent about HN it’s their ability to have the most dogshit take imaginable.
I like to see them wrestle with wanting to be contrarian, “independent thinkers”, and defenders of
while also parroting US state department talking points about every world conflict
HN also has a huge transphobia issue that wasn’t dealt with at all by the mods. It got so bad that the Asahi Linux project had to block the referral link from Hacker News to their website. It’s probably the techbro site besides X formerly known as Twitter.
I’m not surprised. They also had a lot of users have to use their fainting couch when a popular post from a furry about remote work hit the frontpage
How do you even have a tech site that’s afraid of furries and/or trans people?
Where do you think all the Palantir and Google employees post?
You buried the worst part where the same dipshit admits he uses chatGPT to write his insufferable lib posts!
Thank you about the ChatGPT, that’s quite a compliment
It’s really not
This new crop of lib mfs will pretend anything’s a compliment even when it looks bad. Annoying deflection they do, but ultimately shows they’ve run out of things to say
I didn’t have “ChatGPT is anti-irish” on my bingo card
I suppose the old adage is true, “The tree may leave the forest, but its roots are still in the soil.”
He could get a job at The Onion.
Ah yes, the HN
(what is the HN)
Nerd site full of techbro chuds who also happen to all be technically incompetent.
Orange website. Do not look.
