We are what we strive to be. Hacker News was, once upon a time, almost purely respectful even in the face of stark criticism or blatant dismissals. That, sadly, has changed.
Happiness arises from either self-sacrifice for humanity, or through social connections (typically family). Rarely does one have the good fortune to find happiness through both means, as both of these typically require life devotion to achieve.
As someone that used to post to HN under an old handle many years ago, and as someone who has been lurking for even longer than that, I must humbly say that the attitude of the community here has degraded significantly.
The author goes on to describe DNS spoofing in the following paragraph. Perhaps this was used for the live.com attack. He even says, "Within 20 minutes he’s obtained the login details, including passwords for my Live.com, SNS Bank, Facebook, and DigiD accounts."
Checking slashdot, they appear to have filters in their comments for things like 'insightful' and 'imformative'. Thinking more along the lines of being able to rate things like the veracity and tact of the response, with automatic filtering and prevalence based on a few metrics.
Ooo, this inspires a good idea: a multi-dimensional voting based forum. You can up and downvote based on things like veracity, tact, agree/disagree with position, etc.
Looks like algos picked up on log scale trendline break (Oct 25th-27th or so) from long term consolidation, thus the acceleration in the past 30 days. Buyers pile in. Price goes up.
We are what we strive to be. Hacker News was, once upon a time, almost purely respectful even in the face of stark criticism or blatant dismissals. That, sadly, has changed.