[andrew_]

Because it's fun ya mook. That's it. That's the reason.

It's fun to tinker. It's fun to put things out there into the ether. It's fun to exercise the brain and try new things and learn new ways to do things and publish things. The second it stops being fun, we stop.

[sseagull]

I’ve realized the idea that the “Hacker” part of “Hacker News” is no longer here, and just a nod to some ancient, possibly apocryphal, past.

Discussions now are about how you shouldn’t run your own server, and you should use popular stuff so you can speed up development and get your startup going.

I mean, I know about ycombinator and all. But it doesn’t seem to truly encompass the hacker spirit, if you ask me.

[Sebb767]

Actually, in my experience, people that either run their own servers and/or encourage to do so are vastly overrepresented. Interesting self-hosted projects regularly make it to the front page, too. There are, of course, a lot of people and opinions on here, but the overall hacker spirit seems to be alive and well.

[arvinsim]

People always take the convenient route until it bites them in the ass.

Necessity is the mother of invention after all.