Hacker News Reader

[flagged]

This is a Show HN! By hackers for hackers! Not everything has to be serious and ambitous and schleppy.

I can totally relate with your frustration. Here, come criticize my half-stack instead: https://akkartik.name/freewheeling-apps You're absolutely right in general.

yeah fair, i get that not everything has to be polished or production grade. and your work has that clarity purposefully scoped, honest about tradeoffs. that's rare.. i'm all for hobby tools and experiments, just want us to be upfront when things aren't ready, just trying to keep the bar from quietly sliding

just want us to be upfront when things aren't ready

Things that aren't ready are on topic, hobby tools, scratch-an-itch or learning projects are all on topic in for Show HN. Generic harumphing isn't. It is boring and lowers the quality of the threads.

But how can it be a problem? Working on a project just for fun is totally valid. Is this not «Hacker News»?

For the record, this is the definition of being a hacker by Stallman: «Being a programmer doesn't mean being a hacker: it means appreciating playful cleverness. Now, you can program without being playfully clever and you can be playfully clever in other fields without programming.»

Reply on news.ycombinator.com