Hacker News Reader

Hacker News

Comment by magashna | Hacker News Reader

Full thread

magashna

>How a 102-year-old magazine publisher created a frenzy among millennials eager to make its annual list.

Do people under 30 even read Forbes? Or magazines?

The MIT Tech Review seems more focused and also does a "Innovators under 35" list

View on HN

I'm 26 and the only thing I read are HN comments. I don't even read the articles. :)

I often do the same thing. Which really says something about HN. I can't think of any other forum where I regularly read the comments, much less read them first.

I feel like it keeps me very well-educated on modern day topics because it provides usually balanced argument points for both opposing parties.

I wish there was something like a LeftVsRight.com that had the user base of HackerNews where citizens uneducated on politics could go to see viewpoints from both of the two major opposing political parties.

I dunno, even on HN when something vaguely political comes up the discussion can go pretty wrong. Not, like, Reddit wrong, but still wrong.

Ditto. Nowadays, I found that it's easier to just go straight to HN comments and determine if I should spend time reading the articles posted here. :) Of course sometimes, I end up spending more time reading comments, but at least, I feel like I am better informed to judge the articles if I decide to read them after reading the comments here.

It’s not a new feeling.

I think “RTFA” was invented on Slashdot, but that’s probably because I’m too young to realize it’s from newsgroups.

I love HN, but this sounds incredibly limiting and a sure fire way of making sure you have an incredibly narrow view of things.

I sometimes submit articles because I want to read the comments.

Well, yes, I often find the discussion much better than the original content. Also, I know what I think of an article, but you often get very different, and fairly well reasoned, opinions here.

Well done for admitting it, but SHAME ON YOU! ;)

> The MIT Tech Review seems more focused and also does a "Innovators under 35" list

The “MIT” Tech Review list is equally manipulated. Ask your company’s PR company to get you on the list.

I put “MIT” in quotes because the only connection this magazine has with MIT is that it licensed the name from the alumni association in exchange for sending a copy of each issue, bundled with alumni note,s out to each alum.

Forbes is less magazine (though it's still published) and more media publisher these days. They've done a pretty good job of positioning themselves amongst the younger crowd, especially those more interested in business.

Forbes is mostly the world's most prolific and successful SEO spammer right now. Can't escape a single query without seeing their ad filled pages

> Do people under 30 even read Forbes?

From my personal bubble, I wouldn't say so. Regardless of that I think quite a few people know the 30 under 30 lists, I would say.

At one point in my life making it on that list was also a goal of mine, until I saw firsthand how they were picked which completely devalued it.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com