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same with cursor - which was submitted multiple times: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34423387 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34423387 are there m

by nikcub 1mo ago

same with cursor - which was submitted multiple times: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34423387 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34423387 are there more examples of this? a bit of an HN anti-portfolio. good reminder to others.

jasonjayr 1mo ago
There's the infamous post dismissing DropBox ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 )
- heaney-555 1mo ago
  This is, somewhat ironically, the most well-known HN comment outside of HN.
  - greenfish6 1mo ago
    It's also very representative of the HN comment section vibes overall. But such is normal with normies providing startup critiques, if you just look at every announcement and say "this will fail", you'd be right 99% of the time.
    - gpt5 1mo ago
      I mean, the AI skepticism is still so prevalent today in HN, despite it solving decades old math problems, hacking into companies, making software engineer no longer code, etc. (all this just in the last year). So nothing really has changed in this community's vibes.
      - rafael-lua 1mo ago
        Thanks for your input, GPT-5.
      - titularcomment 1mo ago
        If you think HN is anti-AI, you are in deep. There isn't many places on the internet (sans X/Twit which i don't check) that is as AI-positive as HN. Sure, holdouts remain but the frontpage has a 60% constant vibecoded project submission.
        gpt5 1mo ago
        You are mixing supporting AI (which HN is mostly against, but more supportive than other places), and thinking AI is dumb, which HN has been pretty persistent on for years. I mean - just looked at this downvoted comment essentially saying the same thing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49119464 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49119464. And also the intensity of the replies.
- ttul 1mo ago
  Poor BrandonM... He has not been invited to cocktail parties at all since then.
- dandaka 1mo ago
  > It does not seem very "viral" love that Dropbox has became textbook example of viral marketing

by nikcub 1mo ago

jasonjayr 1mo ago

There's the infamous post dismissing DropBox ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 )

heaney-555 1mo ago
This is, somewhat ironically, the most well-known HN comment outside of HN.
- greenfish6 1mo ago
  It's also very representative of the HN comment section vibes overall. But such is normal with normies providing startup critiques, if you just look at every announcement and say "this will fail", you'd be right 99% of the time.
  - gpt5 1mo ago
    I mean, the AI skepticism is still so prevalent today in HN, despite it solving decades old math problems, hacking into companies, making software engineer no longer code, etc. (all this just in the last year). So nothing really has changed in this community's vibes.
    - rafael-lua 1mo ago
      Thanks for your input, GPT-5.
    - titularcomment 1mo ago
      If you think HN is anti-AI, you are in deep. There isn't many places on the internet (sans X/Twit which i don't check) that is as AI-positive as HN. Sure, holdouts remain but the frontpage has a 60% constant vibecoded project submission.
      - gpt5 1mo ago
        You are mixing supporting AI (which HN is mostly against, but more supportive than other places), and thinking AI is dumb, which HN has been pretty persistent on for years. I mean - just looked at this downvoted comment essentially saying the same thing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49119464 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49119464. And also the intensity of the replies.
ttul 1mo ago
Poor BrandonM... He has not been invited to cocktail parties at all since then.
dandaka 1mo ago
> It does not seem very "viral" love that Dropbox has became textbook example of viral marketing