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The fact that this is on the front page shows how steep the decline in intelligence of the average HN reader has been.

People literally don't read articles anymore. They just upvoted based on the title (and if they agree with it)

Indeed. I'm sure a reasonable case can be made to oppose Andressen's screed. But this author doesn't make one. The entire article can be summed up as: I disagree, and Andreessen is a poo poo head! It's sorta ironic that the author writes for gizmodo, literally living off the backs of what tecno-utopists built (or at least financed). The lack of self-awareness is just... I can't find the words.

Well it did catch my eye. I need to publicize an open source project I'm working on soon, so perhaps I can learn from the techniques used.

Maybe I will write badly on why my project will fail, encouraging rubberneckers...

No seriously, when you write your title, base it on something the HN community agrees with even if it's completely irrelevant to your article.

It'll do a lot better since HN readers now just upvoted based on the title without looking at the article.

Been my observation at least as I've noticed a steady drop in HN quality and more politics BS on the front page.

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