[blowski]

Simplicity bias, kind of like "bikeshedding". A large number of people can read this quickly, agree with it, and upvote it. Whereas articles about optimising machine code for the Apple Silicon CPU, or "Risks to the Glen Canyon Dam" are a lot more niche.

Personally, I follow specific people who regularly submit interesting content, and pay less attention to the homepage.

[freeman94]

I’d much rather read about the Glen Canyon dam, thanks for the suggestion.

[emotional_fool]

Could you mind sharing those accounts?

[blowski]

I'd suggest going through https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders and looking at their submission history.

[palata]

Never thought about that, thanks! This post was worth it just for this!

[synergy20]

how to follow them at HN?

[blowski]

In the true HN spirit, I have a little script goes through the Hacker News API and shows them as an RSS feed. But if you'd rather use something off-the-shelf there's https://hnrss.org/submitted?id=synergy20

[cableshaft]

Wow, I thought I had accumulated a pretty decent amount of karma with my 7800 over the past decade, but nope, those put me to shame.

Interesting idea. I'll give it a shot.

[Brajeshwar]

Welcome. Don't worry too much, have fun, remove emotion out of the equation, be consistent, fire-n-forget. The side effect of it is then the Karma keep growing on its own. But don't worry too much about that - not worth it.

Mine was just about 10K+ before the Pandemic. Then, I found the fun part, the rhythm, and then it has grown since then.

[cableshaft]

I do that (maybe not the consistent part, I do go days without making any comments sometimes), I don't karma farm, or worry about it or anything. But it's impossible not to notice the number in the top right from time to time (also usually my clue to check for responses to my comments).

I just assumed it was on the higher end on this site (like top 10-15%), based on the several dozen other profiles I've looked at. Seems I might be further down than I assumed, is all.

[ChrisMarshallNY]

Hmm... See a whole lot of experience, there. Maybe this isn't just "a young man's game," after all...

[Brajeshwar]

Now, you are having fun or making fun of us. With your list to experiences, I'm going to assume you are lot senior to me. ;-)

[ChrisMarshallNY]

> Now, you are having fun or making fun of us.

Yes ;).

I have become somewhat… jaded, in my view of the current tech scene.

I’m sure that some of it is just sour grapes, on my part, but that doesn’t make the problem any less real.

I don’t really feel like going through my posting history, but there’s been a number of times that I’ve been “OK, Boomer”ed, here (I suspect that you’d need to turn on I See Dead Posts to catch most).

I’ve learned to accept the SillyCon Valley ageism, but it still pisses me off, to see the awful results of disastrous decisions made by folks without experience. Many of these jackpots were entirely predictable, to anyone with scars.

If it were just the Principals, getting hurt, I wouldn’t mind so much, but the blast radius tends to include a lot of collateral damage.

[ChrisMarshallNY]

Huh. I'm assuming that it's this reply that earned the thread a closure. As far as I know, it wasn't flagged (but I may not know that). It still has positive karma.

Was it because I mentioned a particular HN setting?

I would certainly appreciate knowing what I did to earn the Ire of The Gods.

I doubt it was mentioning ageism. We talk about that, all the time, and some folks get pretty insulting about it, without getting dinged.