If someone did a HN post on their awesome tritium-faced retro clock project, I would hope someone would be there to educate the younger readers about the history of that material as well.

If you really think I was shitting on the project, my apologies. I prefaced the sentence with "friendly reminder" as in "hey, perhaps this is something you should know about your materials, just like working with tritium".

And, at the end of the day, I didn't upvote myself this far. So ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

(And for the record, the project is pretty neat).

it's a blessing and a curse.... when solving bugs it helps to have lots of different pairs of eyes on it. it's a natural tendency of people to want to warn others about a danger they've experienced.

but yeah, sometimes that does turn into a kind of contest where someone tries hard to find the detail that will mark them as an expert. That can be very tiring. If people try too hard, it shows and makes others tired.

It doesn't feel like it's "crapping all over" the post - it's just a off-hand safety tip that isn't judging anything.

Are you more upset that the post is factual or that it is allowed to exist?