> Reading some comments on hackernews, I often come up on a comment that seems to be speaking another language. At first I'm intimidated into thinking that there's a secret club of intellectuals that understand exactly what this comment is talking about. But then I start to wonder.. is this actually elite minds speaking in a very high-level way with extremely advanced context? Or, is it just some overly opinionated junior person who just assumes everybody is working on the same web tech stack they are, and speaks with that implicit assumption?

I love HN don’t get me wrong, but my coworkers and I like to poke fun at it. Some jokes are “why didn’t you just use rust?” and “Well what did Paul Graham have to say about it?” when debating something. It’s a culture like any other. I would say a lot of super smart people are here, who have deep knowledge on the most esoteric niche subjects, and provide a lot of sage wisdom and advice. But there are a lot of cranks too (including myself!).