Upvoting promotes discussion which is good. Upvote interesting topics, whether you agree with them or not. It's not a vote on the point of the article.
Same for comments, voting is not agreeing, its saying that a point us well made and adds to the discussion.
As to HN aversion to new technologies - thats a mix of an aging demographic (fear of making my job obsolete), a reflexive aversion to hype over substance, (a thing which nerds have tradionally been against because, well, we are bad at hype and view people good at it as undermining our substantive work), and in some cases because there's objectively not much value in the tech even if it succeeds.
It's the way of the world. People whine about new stuff all the time, from their hand-held-hi-tech computer, over the connect-everything network, while binging their favorite sitcom from the 90s. Because, you know, those techs are from the oldentimes .
Same for comments, voting is not agreeing, its saying that a point us well made and adds to the discussion.
As to HN aversion to new technologies - thats a mix of an aging demographic (fear of making my job obsolete), a reflexive aversion to hype over substance, (a thing which nerds have tradionally been against because, well, we are bad at hype and view people good at it as undermining our substantive work), and in some cases because there's objectively not much value in the tech even if it succeeds.
It's the way of the world. People whine about new stuff all the time, from their hand-held-hi-tech computer, over the connect-everything network, while binging their favorite sitcom from the 90s. Because, you know, those techs are from the oldentimes .