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I find this attitude "shoot first (write code), ask questions later" as something to be admired and a bit worrisome at the same time. Nothing against people learning stuff, but why does it have to be promoted this way? Lack of humility is what gets me.

Maybe I'm just jealous or something, but it rubs me the wrong way.

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I think it's less about promotion and more about feedback. "Here's what I've built, what do you think?"

We're meant to be an inclusive community of smart people. The idea is we'll encourage the poster and offer constructive criticism (or praise).

If the post is useful to no one, it simply won't get discussed or upvoted. When something does, it's validated as an idea, or as something of interest.

"Just because you could, doesn't mean you should" - that phrase should have been applied to both writing the software and posting about it here.

Plenty of mediocre stuff gets to the frontpage and plenty of gems fall through the cracks.

Perhaps your view of what's "mediocre" and what's a "gem" is not consistent with the views of Hacker News readers at large

Have you ever visited /newest?

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