It's easy to explain. "I use PGP for my personal notes (symmetric) and for e-mailing my security conscious friends (public-key)". That's sufficient and not awkward.

Yes but that explanation doesn't help you teach people how to use it in an adversarial context. Then they're just following arbitrary rules set down by privacy nerds for seemingly arbitrary reasons.

I am regularly reading comics and colored PDFs; the value of color e-ink is definitely not up for debate for me.

There's no question that there's room for improvement! But if you're only reading prose or black & white documents, you'd be better served by a black & white screen. Which is not cause to say that a useful, functional technology is "fundamentally flawed".

I get the sarcastic intent in your comment; but it's more useful to focus on what Trump does than the things he says.

One of his strategies is to say unbelievable things like he's gonna revoke Rosie O'Donnell's citizenship or something weird like "superior intelligence", and the news will cover that instead of whichever agencies he's getting or how much he appears in the Epstein files.

If someone posts a story about topic Y and a reply is "does anyone really care about topic Y?" I would expect it to be flagged and downvoted.

The answer is "yes". Obviously people still care. No need to resurrect a dead bad post.

OP is apparently working on a new language and would like some assurance that someone out there might take an interest in it someday. That doesn't sound unreasonable to me.

so-cal-schemer attempted to bypass HN moderation by reposting a flagged post in its entirety without waiting for the "vouch" process to complete.

Meanwhile, behnamoh's post was essentially dismissing the idea that we should discuss non-AI topics in the age of AI. His mention of his hobby project doesn't redeem a garbage comment.

What is the "vouch process", and where are the guidelines against quoting other users? I wanted to reply to a genuine question that was already marked "[dead]" (within 20 minutes of its posting).

I think you misconstrued behnamoh's comment, as he was literally asking a question about the role for Racket, not "essentially dismissing the idea that we should discuss non-AI topics".

There are enough AI stories on Hacker News. We don't need AI advocates coming to the stories that aren't about AI and saying they don't matter because they're not AI.

Things that aren't AI still matter and are still interesting.

This. For real I can't take it anymore. What to do?

> What to do?

Flag the twits that bring it up in every thread. They're trolling at this point, not actually trying to have a conversation.

I think I’m ready for an internet break

I am not sure "eaten out" was the correct phrase to use here.

Most "Show HN" posts these days are vibe-coded garbage. It is a pleasant surprise to see one that isn't!

This makes Hacker News usable again. Thank you.

Use a different search engine such as Ecosia or noai.duckduckgo.com

This is not an answer

Actually it is. I haven't seen any Google AI summaries since I started using non-Google search engines.

Offer low pay and start using lines of code as a metric. Not only will you not hire such people, you'll also filter out any who might already be on your team!

(Assuming "these people" is a euphemism for "skilled engineers")