I was on an IRC channel hosted by this guy. Maybe 5-6 people all 13-15 back in 2007. They were/are my best friends. For over 10 years we talked. The guy who ran it worked for the CIA and got arrested as the person responsible for the Vault7 hacking tools leak. Now the server has been taken by the FBI and I had to have a very interesting conversation about all the shit we said over the years. Now he’s going to spend the rest of his life in prison.
Yes, but it's just as easy to reject true things that people say because they violate preconceptions. We see at least as much of that as the other on HN. And don't forget that the site guidelines include "Assume good faith."
Right, I'm sure all of the repeditive HN frontpage content about facebook, tesla, shitcoin, etc is posted "in good faith" and not to accumulate fake internet points.
Hits me hard everytime I think about it...