[brudgers]

I wouldn’t say HN mitigates my loneliness.

However, it does keep me from feeling alone…what I mean is HN is where I am not the only person with interests in the things I geek out on.

I don’t work a tech job. I don’t work in academia or a library. In my meat space, a friend recently said “what’s a pdf?”

So HN is a place where I can say things about regex’s and Borges and black holes and the worst case is losing five karma points and the average case is just being ignored as line noise. Both being better outcomes than the worst or average in my meaty life.

I guess the thing about HN is that it doesn’t operate on exclusion. Sure it’s not for everyone, but it is for anyone.

YMMV and this is not an argument that your experience is like mine or should be like mine. Or even that you should think I am right. It is just a draft of some thoughts I have on this particular Monday morning.

Good luck.