[untog]

Hacker News can be a cesspool at times.

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.

[notRobot]

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.

[saagarjha]

I often do a pass to Hacker News (and Twitter, and Reddit)-proof topics which are not highly technical but are likely to appear on here.