but I find the community to be a bit caustic at times

I find the same can be true around here too, though.

Wayyyyy too many libertarians on hacker news who have experienced a lot of personal success in their life and have transformed that success into an utter lack of intellectual maturity or ability to empathize with others less fortunate than them.

Good info, but wow I have read enough hacker news that I have almost zero interest in talking to tech people in real life at this point, they can be so aggressively naive and are always focused on incredibly narrow visions of the future that as a rule don’t center humans as the most valuable part of society/economy. If aliens came to earth and offered them a new algorithm in exchange for enslaving all of the planet, they would shrug their shoulders and say “We can’t stand in the way of progress, I might as well do it, somebody else will if I don’t!”. It makes me thankful a physicist developed the nuclear bomb not a tech person or I am sure we would all be dead right now.

Good info though and fun to troll libertarians if you are into that kink.

But HN is also mostly tech biz.

Repost it here if you find something interesting. I read a little ycomb but it’s a firehose and discussion is typically bad as you said.

Lemmy needs more reposting from other blogs. Filtering content is useful. Not everything needs to be original.