It's interesting how much the good parts have to do with not worrying about how much money your making or the job you have and instead focuses on technical topics. People are not happy Dan, and we can't bring it back to 2014 when a select few got to get massages before they pushed their commit for the day. If you want to be part of an interesting technical discussion you have to acknowledge where the people with knowledge are.
I don’t understand this comment. Firstly you’re looking at one person’s selection, not some authoritative list of the best comments, so it mostly reflects what that person is interested in. I don’t really understand the rest of your comment but for example I get to be in lots of interesting technical discussions at work, I’m happy, and reasonably well paid. I don’t think that’s a particularly unusual situation to be in compared to other HN readers who can live in similar places to me.
I really wonder what he would say today. In a way, being devoured by LLMs achieved SO’s ultimate goal of helping people solve programming problems quickly, but at the cost of SO.
SO was already well DeadOverflow way before LLMs were a thing. For reasons people explained when SO came out: just as FaceBook was bound to be filled with accounts of dead persons (earning it the name "DeadBook"), SO was bound to be filled with outdated answers. That the people asking the question could pick what was, according to him, the proper answer was a huge mistake and it's been immediately pointed out as stupid and they didn't fix it: not only wrong answers were picked, but also answers bound to be soon outdated were picked as "correct" too.
Don't get me wrong: I used SO a lot in the beginning, but the problems --that many foresaw-- quickly became obvious.
And I'm not saying not allowing to pick one correct answer would have saved SO: but its downfall probably wouldn't have been so abrupt.
Not all is rosy with LLMs but at least we don't have to suffer SO answers and SO comments anymore.
I think SO had issues before LLMs but I would classify them more as community and moderation issues than dead answers (which can mostly be dealt with by pointing out on the site when an answer is old and allowing a higher-voted answer to rank more highly than the answer chosen by the question submitter)
> I compiled a very abbreviated list of comments I like because comments seem to get lost.
Note that you can track comments you like by clicking its timestamp and then clicking "favorite". Then they're available at e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=sillysaurusx&comme...
Related. Others?
HN: The Good Parts (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33364865 - Oct 2022 (48 comments)
HN: The Good Parts (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27049601 - May 2021 (82 comments)
HN: The Good Parts (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20092118 - June 2019 (35 comments)
HN comments are underrated - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12772925 - Oct 2016 (359 comments)
(I can't remember why that last, i.e. the first, title was so different.)
Hey Dang when can we start (secretly) following our favourite users on HN
Bookmarks are A Thing.
You can bookmark an account's profile, comments, and/or submissions page.
It's on the list...
Why though? You want a bubble here?
There is https://hnrss.github.io/ if you don’t mind a 3rd party service.
Hey thanks.
A few minutes later: this looks fantastic. Thank you.
It's interesting how much the good parts have to do with not worrying about how much money your making or the job you have and instead focuses on technical topics. People are not happy Dan, and we can't bring it back to 2014 when a select few got to get massages before they pushed their commit for the day. If you want to be part of an interesting technical discussion you have to acknowledge where the people with knowledge are.
I don’t understand this comment. Firstly you’re looking at one person’s selection, not some authoritative list of the best comments, so it mostly reflects what that person is interested in. I don’t really understand the rest of your comment but for example I get to be in lots of interesting technical discussions at work, I’m happy, and reasonably well paid. I don’t think that’s a particularly unusual situation to be in compared to other HN readers who can live in similar places to me.
I don't understand this comment either, what are you adding here? Just saying your happy and well paid..good for you?
Well said.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3656581
I really wonder what he would say today. In a way, being devoured by LLMs achieved SO’s ultimate goal of helping people solve programming problems quickly, but at the cost of SO.
SO was already well DeadOverflow way before LLMs were a thing. For reasons people explained when SO came out: just as FaceBook was bound to be filled with accounts of dead persons (earning it the name "DeadBook"), SO was bound to be filled with outdated answers. That the people asking the question could pick what was, according to him, the proper answer was a huge mistake and it's been immediately pointed out as stupid and they didn't fix it: not only wrong answers were picked, but also answers bound to be soon outdated were picked as "correct" too.
Don't get me wrong: I used SO a lot in the beginning, but the problems --that many foresaw-- quickly became obvious.
And I'm not saying not allowing to pick one correct answer would have saved SO: but its downfall probably wouldn't have been so abrupt.
Not all is rosy with LLMs but at least we don't have to suffer SO answers and SO comments anymore.
I think SO had issues before LLMs but I would classify them more as community and moderation issues than dead answers (which can mostly be dealt with by pointing out on the site when an answer is old and allowing a higher-voted answer to rank more highly than the answer chosen by the question submitter)
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights
(2016)
It’s had more recent updates
Added. Thanks!