Would you please stop making up generalizations about Hacker News to score rhetorical points? It indulges the desire to feel better than everybody else, which gets upvotes since (ironically) everybody loves having that indulged. Nevertheless it makes for a bad HN comment because its underlying message is just "Look at me." I recommend listening to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmb7TU0OrOI instead.
I emphasize this because you posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13943374 a few days ago, which was a particularly dismaying example. Comments like that basically activate a bug in human firmware to the detriment of substantive discussion.
Oh please. My goal was not to score rhetorical points but to make HNers crack a smile in the style of http://n-gate.com/hackernews/
If you think I'm being overbroad in my generalizations, of course I am. As they say, "That's the joke."
I'll stop but only under protest, and with the note that I think HN administration is misreading the effect this has on people. (Hint: it's funny because the average Hackernews sees a little of themself in the n-gate posts, not because they feel smugly superior.)
I emphasize this because you posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13943374 a few days ago, which was a particularly dismaying example. Comments like that basically activate a bug in human firmware to the detriment of substantive discussion.