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There's the infamous post dismissing DropBox ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 )
by jasonjayr 28d ago
There's the infamous post dismissing DropBox ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 )
- heaney-555 28d agoThis is, somewhat ironically, the most well-known HN comment outside of HN.
- greenfish6 28d agoIt'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 28d agoI 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 28d agoThanks for your input, GPT-5.
- titularcomment 28d agoIf 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 28d agoYou 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 28d agoPoor BrandonM... He has not been invited to cocktail parties at all since then.
- dandaka 28d ago> It does not seem very "viral" love that Dropbox has became textbook example of viral marketing