It's mentioned at the end of the blog post, but reading “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy”, by Gil Durán is a great book if anyone wants to understand the fucked up minds of these tech billionaires.
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Pulling forward the first paragraph of the article, as we are far from universally reading articles these days.
Hacker News (aka HN) is a link aggregator where “hackers” gather to discuss technology, politics, and anything which “good hackers would find interesting”. HN is a means by which its host, prominent startup incubator Y Combinator, projects soft power, promotes startups it funds, and feeds people with ideas into its incubation program. Hacker News is one of the most popular forums for discussing technology online today – perhaps the biggest.
Does any know of a pro-union or pro-cooperative startup incubator?
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Hacker News feels more like a site for Apple enthusiasts than hackers. And the time I've spent away from it has made me realize how not great the community there is.
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HN is for boot lickers, it's extremely obvious in just 1 visit
I feel icky every time I visit.
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Y combinator is deeply rooted in fascism, I'm trying to find the hacker-news post that shocked me about "going back to silicon-valley root: the military industry". The "liberal-progressive" tone that can be read from commenters can soften the overall vibe but in the end the tone is definitely not great : last example for me was how the "stopomarchy" news was treated (flagged, and the comments smells very bad) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49661901
It's been 2 years now that on top of this the vast majority of "news" are LLM related. And if you're not into that this make the website not worth anything any more.
The rare occasions when I visit Hacker News I do it because IT information all other themes there don't bother me, apart in this themes there are better publications out there. For general and policy news there are other not biased sources.
Drew Devault is a loser and pretty much nothing he says should be taken seriously.
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The purity testing will continue until everyone follows only one exact way of thinking.
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Always been a fash cesspit.
Well, it's certainly not Tankie like lemmy. None of the examples of flagged posts surprises me. I think it's the wording more than the political bias. Right wing drive by comments would also get flagged. Political submissions, even related to technology get flagged regardless of bias. Hell, currently there is an active discussion of Georgism...
You just can't post low effort garbage like "Always been a fash cesspit." like you can on lemmy/reddit...
I for one enjoy HN because the discussions seem focused on the topics at hand, which in most cases, is related to technology. I understand shit is bad but sometimes it's good to have spaces where the top comments aren't angry or complaints. I go to Lemmy for more political content and discussion... Different places for different things.
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Absolutely based. Dan Gackle is an insincere scumbag of the highest order.
Reminder that Drew DeVault is a pedophile.
He also wrote a smear piece about Stallman and then pretended it wasn't him.
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Love the fact the post on HN itself is marked as "flagged."
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