Are you surprised that HN users are fine with their big tech overlords?
I just clicked here to certify this would have been flagged. HN does not disappoint.
The only thing I like more than this confirmation are those posts you see sometimes of people smelling their own farts talking about how HN is oh so special because someone posted a reply that happens to be well thought out because they are competent in some narrow technical subject.
The best thing to do right now is politely email hn@ycombinator.com to bring the mistake to their attention. I’ve worked with them in the past, and I’m confident they’ll unflag it.
Whether they unflag it, the community still flagged it.
Any forum is only good as the community that posts there.
Most communities tend to only be as good as their worst members.
This is a very interesting community. It could be that some just flag politics, I'm sure there could be analytics on the flags by user to help filter out the hysterical lightweights and the 4chan adjacents. I personally would like to follow the flagged posts first then the rest lol I do understand some posts need to go though and the flagging feature is still probably useful.
Disastrous response from the hacker ethic group.
I guess it’s like how the hippies were mostly bought out by the 80’s - what was that saying from SLC Punk, “I didn’t sell out, I bought in”?
Ethics? Gruber spent the past decade applauding every Apple mistake; the App Store monopoly, client side scanning, even Liquid Glass.
We didn't get bought out, Daring Fireball did. I have genuinely zero interest in watching him document the fact that Apple's monopoly ignores his demands. The true "hacker ethic group" recognized this decades ago, and stopped supporting Apple long before their ideology synchronized with pedophiles.
It is possible - and even so happens - that from time to time, even a person with whom you vehemently disagree with most things is right about something. As they say, even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
You're about to find out just how unethical an App Store monopoly can get.