[tentacle]

If this site was made by a male you wouldn't even see it on the front page of HN. (=ｘェｘ=)

[kmfrk]

The submission shows a great capacity for humility.

I hope that's not a trait unique to women, but one wonders.

[qu4z-2]

I'm highly skeptical that humility is unique to women. Nearly as skeptical as I am of the claim that programming/tech is unique to men.

[qu4z-2]

Do people disagree?

I've met plenty of humble men and plenty of excellent female programmers. That seems to disprove both theories, as far as I can see.

Anyone wanting to prove a universal in the face of counterexamples is welcome to have a go though :)

[aestra]

Why do you guys pursume these posts get upvoted because they were written by women?

Personally, I read and upvoted this post because it was well written, interesting, and was interesting to see through the eyes of a total beginner. The author's gender was not a factor in my vote nor my opinion of the blog post. I am a woman myself.

[tentacle]

Well, I'm a woman, too. And I don't think it is that impressive to make it to the front page. There are tons of submissions like that... But it seems a post like this is only upvoted if the poster is either a woman or at least only 10 years old.

[aestra]

Impressive? No. Interesting and well written? Yes.

[aroman]

I disagree. Franky, I think males would tend not to submit posts like this to HN, which is their loss. That she is female is not why this post was upvoted, it was upvoted because it was deemed to be of interest to the community.

[tentacle]

I'm just seeing a pattern here. A friend posted my site here a while ago when I was starting programming. And it hit immediately the front page of HN. I received so many "I love you", "Marry me"-mails because of it. So I'm not exactly sure...

[ulisesrmzroche]

I'm a troll, so I've been joking around that HN is full of white knights for a while now (not your case in particular, don't remember that, but every other post written by a woman that hits the front page).

I didn't think anyone would send that sort of email, that's not even cool HN, just desperate.

[orng]

I really disagree. It isn't about the site. It's about the post, which happens to be well written and informative.

[tentacle]

Are you being sarcastic?

[KirinDave]

We've seen posts like this done by men before. The common thread is not gender, but age and humility.

So no. You are wrong, misinformed, inflammatory, and offensive. Crawl back into the abyss from whence you came, Tentacle.

[0X1A]

I recently got to learning CSS, HTML and launched my own website using bootstrap that I host at home on a rinky dink Thinkpad X40. Would anyone be interested in seeing that? I'm a male though, so probably not huh? Also running an instance of gitlab, wordpress, owncloud and I had no prior knowledge of how apache worked about a month and a half ago.

[KirinDave]

I suspect a lot of people here would be interested in reading about your learning process. What they are not interested in is a post in which you try and say, "I am so awesome look at all I did."

Voyeuristic tendencies aside, a lot of experienced programmers find that stuff refreshing. Less experienced programmers often find inspiration to try new things.

[bsaul]

unless it's a 6 years old.

Which says a lot about how sexism works both ways :)

[morgante]

Seriously, the bar for attention is incredibly low these days.