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They kind of are hanging out on HN, given that a story in such a spirit is being upvoted into the front page once a week or two, but they also seem a bit bipolar in that they swing between wanting to use the internet ascetically and defending the "web is your new OS and TV and it's a good thing!" attitude because they do it for a living, and that 150k is a 150k after all.



Different people have different opinions, let's make 2022 the year we move away from grouping vaguely related people then calling the group inconsistent

I've also not seen any recently aside from the one we're in (published 2016), what was the most recent one you recall seeing outside this?

E: just realising this comes off a bit snarky after the group quip, apologies. Asking out of legitimate interest not as a gotcha or anything.

At this point I've just given up worrying about it thinking it's an outdated opinion and I've not seen much recently to inform it in any direction other than towards JS support being expected


All those yearnings for "the old web", I can amend it to "once every couple weeks". Here's a recent one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29661935 (This page is designed to last, 5 days ago)

HN is also my procrastination tool of choice, so it might be I can see articles and manifestos urging for the return to the glory of blogosphere and web 1.0 before they sink down into oblivion.

It's like you may grow an impression that on HN, there are always endless debates about notetaking in software and paper. Sure they are there. There's good stuff, too, at least every other day.




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