Nah, peak HN would be someone writing a shitty scraper in Rust to do the same thing without taking the time to realize there’s an algolia api available.
I would argue "peak HN" would be shitting on a side project with no practical purpose that was obviously done for learning/fun because they did something somebody else already did and didn't have a perfectly unique idea.
Most are comical enough to almost warrant being auto-flagged for unsubstantive, but some of them are spot on replies to examples of pedantry and an out of touch unsocialized audience within some really fascinating threads, I think this is a cool use of algolia
In my mind "Peak HN" or "Stereotypically HN" has always been this very distinct display of arrogant superiority while pedantically nitpicking some minor fault in OP's comment. Like, someone writes a five paragraph post, clearly an expert in some topic, and the first reply is "Ackshually, you are wrong: You said 'all' in paragraph 3, sentence 12, where you should have said 'some' because I can easily point out a counterexample. Therefore your entire five paragraph post is invalid!" I think it's a pattern all of us (or should I say most of us) have seen...
"Peak HN" is someone claiming your argument implies something you never actually meant, that can only follow through some arm-twisting of logic or reducto absurdum. Happens lot.
Oh, so you're saying only things you meant are what you said? Yeah right. Peak HN (This might be the most "meta" thing I've ever done - mockingly saying "Peak HN" while satirizing something mentioned in a comment defining Peak HN in response to a submission about an Algolia search of HN for the phrase "Peak HN." Oh wait, this parenthetical is one step further meta. ← And now that sentence. ← and now that sentence → Oh noooo)
I disagree. Comments that start with a single setence "False." are too few and far between to truly be "peak HN". Comments that start with a single sentence "I disagree." are much more plentiful, as can be verified with Algolia.
This feels like it's one step removed from the sort of people who hate listened to Howard Stern in the 90s. I get it, there are dumb comments. Whatever. It's the Internet. But posting screenshots of random HN comments to some Twitter hashtag so you and your followers can have a laugh? That's something.
People on HN do the same with just about everyone and everything outside the community, all the time. The site guidelines prevent HN from getting what it gives so some people choose to seek catharsis elsewhere.
* Assumption that all humanity prefers and is extremently competent with the command line, and GUIs are merely there to hinder them.
* A statement about how any kind of tradeoff favouring aesthetics over performance is on a spectrum between stupid and evil.
* Paul Graham quote, as that establishes fact without further evidence.
* A few condescending comments about how you've been coding for a very, very long time - since the times when programming was done properly by experts.
* Absolute assertion that the article is clickbait
If we taught everyone JUST A LITTLE command line, I think we'd all be a bit happier with our computers.
Expecting your first interaction to be effortless is as dismissive of skill and as ridiculous as expecting to be able to play violin while riding a bike on your first interaction with either.
> A few condescending comments about how you've been coding for a very, very long time - since the times when programming was done properly by experts.
To be fair, the average quality of professional development work has dropped as the number of developers has increased, the demand for developers has increased and the focus on fundamentals in programming related curriculum has decreased.
It's a necessary evil as we have no room for gatekeepers to prevent perfectly adequate developers from helping with the immense amount of work that needs to be done. The downside is putting up with obnoxious MacBook toting soydevs who think their insert hybridization of two tech fads will change the world.
Does anyone know why HN submissions that are searching HN almost invariably use Algolia rather than just site:news.ycombinator.com? I have never seen any link or even reference to Algolia outside of HN.
It might be fun to train a classifier that outputs the "HN Peakness" value of a comment, using the parent comments from this search as positive training samples.
Scrolling through hundreds of replies not about the topic, but a small, pedantic, niche interpretation of it, or events loosely connected to it. So comically so, it's as if bots were written to reply to posts and they miss the point completely.
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https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Random downvotes out of disagreement.
No, you’re wrong. It’s never five. Usually three, some times four, possibly seven. Never five.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
edit/ Words.
Sadly not up to date, it stopped in mid-August 2021.
I've never heard of that business model
* Assumption that all humanity prefers and is extremently competent with the command line, and GUIs are merely there to hinder them.
* A statement about how any kind of tradeoff favouring aesthetics over performance is on a spectrum between stupid and evil.
* Paul Graham quote, as that establishes fact without further evidence.
* A few condescending comments about how you've been coding for a very, very long time - since the times when programming was done properly by experts.
* Absolute assertion that the article is clickbait
Expecting your first interaction to be effortless is as dismissive of skill and as ridiculous as expecting to be able to play violin while riding a bike on your first interaction with either.
1: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/sealioning-int...
To be fair, the average quality of professional development work has dropped as the number of developers has increased, the demand for developers has increased and the focus on fundamentals in programming related curriculum has decreased.
It's a necessary evil as we have no room for gatekeepers to prevent perfectly adequate developers from helping with the immense amount of work that needs to be done. The downside is putting up with obnoxious MacBook toting soydevs who think their insert hybridization of two tech fads will change the world.
I think comments ignoring or dismissing any technology or tech-industry attitude/habit from more than about five years ago would be even more Peak HN.
There used to be like 20 of these a day, but the site grew out of it.
And Algolia is a YCombinator company: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/algolia