I wouldn’t trip at all. There are great folks on HN, and you can tell from comments who are the sour ones just because. I personally enjoy reading your posts. I worked at Apple for a long time, loved it. I still use their products and want to understand what bugs exist. I use SSH daily for many things.
The post was excellent, I’ve been locked away from Catalina updates now that my work mac is my primary Mac so I like keeping abreast of all the little gotchas I might be hitting. And it’s a great debugging chain for something that is truly weird. Sorry you’ve had bad past experiences here, the quote gave me quite a chuckle
Hey, not sure if this is a side-effect of you taking this post down but I was interested in reading another of your posts about B2 vs S3 Glacier and am getting "Error establishing a database connection".
One important thing to always remember is that unless someone posted their article to Hacker News themselves they might have had absolutely no expectation that a huge audience was about to descend and dissect everything they wrote. They might have just been talking off the cuff, mentally noodling around or even just using the process of writing stuff down as a means to sort their thoughts. Far too often HN commenters work from the assumption that an author is intending to make A Big Point and very uncharitably deconstruct every sentence the author wrote.
It's only a matter of time before we see a reply along the lines of "OBVIOUSLY 10.15.4 did NOT break SSH, the author just didn't do X Y and Z to fix a very OBVIOUS mistake in their SSH config".
> Why would you take down the post as it’s probably useful to others?
More broadly, Tyler doesn't owe the world anything in this regard. If he wants to post it, cool. If he wants to remove it, cool.
This is so true, I wish I could upvote this twice. I've been on the receiving end of this too, where something I wrote in the moment without much thought ended up at the top of HN with a whole lot of criticism.