Sadly, most of the things on there are true. We can try to deny it all we want, but most of the stuff that's there is true. The power of anonymity is that you get to voice honest opinions without tying it up with your identity and/or feeling responsible for it. Of course, this can be argued otherwise too, by citing some (bad) comments as example from that thread, but for the most part, what you see there are honest comments.
Some of my favorites:
>Why [popular technology] is [unexpected opinion]
>Why I have decided to stop using [ Tried and true web dev environment] and start using Meteor
>Why [obscure framework] is the next [industry standard framework].
>Ask HN: Why is nobody using [obscure niche technology from the 80s]?
>[Actually interesting topic] - 0 comments
>Can the NSA blow up your PC remotely?
>Why you shouldn't store your files locally, but in the cloud
>Why it's impossible to use PHP even though millions of people are doing great things with it
>Some blog post about scalability... blog crashes after posting link to HN and /r/programming
>Show /hn/: I ripped off an existing product and added Bootstrap to it
>Pay me $50 to teach you decades old vim features in screencast form
>Reasons Why A Basic Income Guarantee Might Just Be A Bad Idea
As someone who lives outside of sv, it seems like they're not describing a site but a place. So while visits to HN can do worlds of good to my intellectual curiosity, this post is a nice reminder that I don't actually have to endure this disgusting mindset on a daily basis. Thankfully.
tldr; you people are awesomely sickening.
Oh yeah, and they forgot to add "How I quit my job and traveled the third world on just a 'few dollars a day'"
"How I quit my job and went into consulting"
"How I quit consulting and went into freelancing"
"How I quit consulting and went into your mom's vagina"
"How I quit my consulting job for a month and learned to program and am now making 80k a year writing Ruby apps"
"How I quit my contractor Ruby dev gig and joined the Node.js behemoth (and why you should too)"
"In Silicon Valley" is on my list of things that deal break a job offer for me. Pretty much the only reason I'd go back there is "actually changing the world" or maybe possibly "my wife has a really good reason".
I don't know that you can consider healthcare.gov an existing service. I don't know anyone who's actually been able to get service there. It's more in the idea/alpha phase. Health Sherpa ripped off an existing idea and made a improved functioning (bootstrap) version.
Some of my favorites:
>Why [popular technology] is [unexpected opinion]
>Why I have decided to stop using [ Tried and true web dev environment] and start using Meteor
>Why [obscure framework] is the next [industry standard framework].
>Ask HN: Why is nobody using [obscure niche technology from the 80s]?
>[Actually interesting topic] - 0 comments
>Can the NSA blow up your PC remotely?
>Why you shouldn't store your files locally, but in the cloud
>Why it's impossible to use PHP even though millions of people are doing great things with it
>Some blog post about scalability... blog crashes after posting link to HN and /r/programming
>Show /hn/: I ripped off an existing product and added Bootstrap to it
>Pay me $50 to teach you decades old vim features in screencast form
>Reasons Why A Basic Income Guarantee Might Just Be A Bad Idea
And this is the best:
>38090087
so the password is password?