It’s admittedly a snippy, snarky, kind of cryptic comment and I probably deserve more downvotes than I got on it.

In a more measured tone: there is, in my opinion, a kind of creeping anti-intellectualism that’s been slowly-but-surely gaining ground on HN for the last 5-ish years.

We used to just really openly admire and respect iconic pros in this business, we used to openly acknowledge that some of the software work we talk about is pretty friggin elite and few of any of us will ever even work on some of it.

Whether it’s Linus or the TailScale pros or John Blow, I’ve seen people get gang-tackled by the “no one ever uses this LeetCode stuff in a real job” crowd repeatedly in the last week.

Knowing how to use “git reflog” to do surgery on a fucked-up repo isn’t necessary every day, but when you need it, you need it bad, and there’s nothing outdated about how knowing how the damned tools work.