Hacker Read

taylorlunt · 2020-04-20 04:53:55

Thus begins the decline of hacker news into mainstream clickbait. Mark my words.

orasis | karma 2075 | avg karma 2.38 · | 2019-09-01 02:27:05+00:00

Glad to see Hacker News is now peddling in clickbait fear trash.

ggasp | karma 343 | avg karma 3.99 · | 2016-11-29 14:32:50

Hacker News is at its worst.

aristus | karma 7284 | avg karma 4.66 · | 2008-04-11 02:06:37

AKA "How self-referential clickbait linking to generic info is the ruin of sites like Hacker News."

tectonic | karma 7435 | avg karma 5.38 · | 2013-03-19 01:10:04

"real time Hacker News degenerated in to this"

drukenemo | karma 599 | avg karma 2.01 · | 2021-11-07 04:25:24

Hacker News has really become a place of promoting unquestioned alarmism.

alexanderss | karma 18 | avg karma 0.6 · | 2014-09-17 11:35:30

Seriously, this is what gives Hacker News a bad name.

farhanhubble | karma 368 | avg karma 2.15 · | 2023-09-11 07:12:39

Hacker news is all fanboyism now.

Elepsis | karma 1284 | avg karma 4.2 · | 2009-07-18 19:52:47+00:00

I think this is officially the sign of the reddit-ization of Hacker News. Pathetic.

jackpirate | karma 3050 | avg karma 5.11 · | 2011-07-20 05:51:16+00:00

It's already the bane of hacker news.

pipes | karma | avg karma · | 2023-05-28 01:09:28

And the link titles on hacker news are following the same trajectory that Reddit did about a decade ago. It's depressing.

mistermann | karma 4634 | avg karma 0.56 · | 2018-03-27 13:05:31+00:00

> This is Hacker News not Reddit

The distinction is diminishing over time.

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guywithabike | karma 1399 | avg karma 4.66 · | 2012-09-13 11:15:57

It's gotten to the point where it doesn't even surprise me anymore that this kind of tripe is the #1 top story on Hacker News now. Hacker News is becoming the "Ow, My Balls!" of the tech world.

redleggedfrog | karma 1990 | avg karma 4.24 · | 2018-06-30 12:16:37+00:00

That's the best click-bait headline I've seen here at Hacker News.

criley2 | karma 4465 | avg karma 2.92 · | 2017-10-17 14:34:27+00:00

This is how Hacker News died.

Lowest-common-denominator democracy driving content into the gutter of popularity.

Oh well, I complain because I've been here for nearly a decade across accounts. This... isn't what it used to be like.

I complain because I remember a better time.

Oh well, really, oh well.

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skyrw | karma 161 | avg karma 4.13 · | 2017-03-31 00:32:22+00:00

Hacker News is r/politics now. I'm out.

untog | karma 43841 | avg karma 4.88 · | 2014-05-09 13:15:23

Hacker News is so much more honest at this time of day, before Silicon Valley wakes up.

It'll never last, they're going to disrupt us any second now.

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edibleEnergy | karma 170 | avg karma 2.05 · | 2015-01-02 15:47:20+00:00

Ugh yeah I had the same reaction. Clickbait is not what I expect on hacker news.

imadrin | karma -5 | avg karma -2.5 · | 2012-08-21 21:25:19+00:00

hacker news just jumped the shark. peace dudes.

void0 | karma 0 | avg karma 0.0 · | 2013-12-28 21:37:34

This is why I hate Hacker News.