I generally don’t like something not related to tech in hacker news.
Humanitarian crisis is happening across the world. There were no posts here for Sudanese people. None for Nigerian Christians or Bangladeshi Hindus. Or is humanitarian crisis only happen when certain people are involved in them?
I have noticed this all across the wider web. Only when Muslims suffer from hands of non Muslims, there are protests and posts in support of them.
Pakistan is openly committing human rights violations against baluchis and have done it against Bangladeshi Hindus. Sudan and Somalia have both been supported by the gulf countries. Maybe start protesting and have same amount of human feelings for non Muslims as well.
> Pakistan is openly committing human rights violations against baluchis and have done it against Bangladeshi Hindus
Hello, I am an Indian (Hindu) person, I have made my stance extremely clear when the recent attack on India was done by terrorists in which there was a religious angle as well where Islamist extremist terrorists asked to recite an Islamic prayer otherwise they were shot.
That event has traumatized me as well, I may not have submitted it but there has always been a conflict between Hindus and Muslims after the British divided us.
I also support the baloch movement, in the sense that, Pakistani corruption/militarial aggression has severely underfunded the region while its get its resources extracted from.
So, if anything, according to your comment, you should feel like I should be against all of muslims.
but that is not the case, there are good muslims and bad muslims, just as how there are good jews and bad jews and just as how there are good and bad hindus
Essentially, religion doesn't play a role in good or bad but religion certainly extremizes the elements
In this case it was religious extremist agression from Israel (Jewish faith) to Islam/Palestine.
In our case it was religious extremist aggression from Islamist Extremist terrorist to India in pahalgam attack which had shook the nation to its core.
My point is, I can't/won't see Innocent people/kids dying, and yes, this goes beyond religion, for the most part.
I have also been aware of the sudanese people, its a real tragedy where UAE/Dubai are funding opposite sides and rape/murder/slaughtering of Innocent people are also happening, its really scary as well.
> Maybe start protesting and have same amount of human feelings for non Muslims as well.
I kind of do, It's just that Innocent Muslims are dying in higher proportions simply because they are in war-torn regions caused by Israel/US in this case of Iran/Palestine.
I genuinely want all wars to go over and have either an element of co-existence or mutual agreement for the most part.
> Only when Muslims suffer from hands of non Muslims, there are protests and posts in support of them.
There are vast numbers of posts about Ukraine and its attack by Russia. Daily I see many comments expressing human feelings for people across the spectrum, muslim, non muslim, male, female, et al.
I have seen posts about Palestine here much more than the one you got for the Nigerian Christians. The one you got is from 2025 even when the issue is still ongoing.
Maybe your impressions are muddied?
That error on your part aside, submission _topics_ here on HN are biased toward US / Western / English speaking tech interests and geographies ...
Hence the low low number of Chinese posts about tech in rural China, etc.
The topics that are posted, however (eg: Gaza, Ukraine in the political sphere) attract a breadth of viewpoints (both pro Israel and pro Palestine in the Gaza example).
Your post above essentially laments that everything is pro Muslim on HN.
PRs or closed jira tickets can be a metric of productivity only if they add or improve the existing feature set of the product.
If a PR introduces a feature with 10 bugs in other features and I have my agent swarm fix those in 10-20 PRs in a week, my productivity and delivery have both taken a hit. If any of these features went to prod, I have lost revenue as well.
Shipping is not same as shipping correctly with minimal introduction of bugs.
"All else equal" means that PR volume is a signal that needs to be read in context a number of other metrics, as well as qualitative feedback.
You're absolutely right that PRs fixing things that a previous PR broke is a negative. Same for PRs implementing work not needed, or driving up tech debt.
"You're productive because you have lots of PRs" is a mistake without that context. But so is "You produce very little PRs, but that's fine, we shouldn't look at volume".
It's not a performance metric. It is an indicator worth following up. And there's a lot of reflexive "bad metric" arguments blanket dismissing that indicator.
I don’t think these kind of outbursts from some random guy in HN requires your response.
You have helped a lot of people from junior to staff+ level to understand how to use agents for software engineering using simple language. Calling it garbage is gross injustice to the work you put out.
This is a very interesting take unlike the usual doom and gloom narrative or jevons paradox optimists.
Are there any data points which made you reach these conclusions?
To be fair I've been all over the map on this. But lately neither of these scenarios seemed quite right. Reflecting on my own experience, I find that sometimes AI is great, but sometimes it feels like a return of https://xkcd.com/303/. So, putting 2 and 2 together and picturing it from C-level perspective, this is where I landed.
What’s wrong with just posting and then taking the feedback and improving? Why is taste or for that matter any arbitrarily decided “in thing” necessary for posting in show hn? Who is the arbitrator here?
Nothing, do that! It's not just about Show HN. If you're asking for feedback you're clearing a lot of the problem right there. These are not who I'm talking about. You cultivate some measure of taste right there actually, just by trying to learn about the people you are potentially building for. I am talking about people who post here, reddit, twitter, reddit again etc etc and never ask for feedback they assume their stuff is a gift to the rest of us.
That’s totally orthogonal to what the OP is responding to though.
Military software can be bleeding edge as well as extremely susceptible to error prone code which means you need to test more. Similar are the cases with financial softwares which are usually written in ocaml etc.
observing your ability to comprehend, the places where you work must be “bleeding” profusely.
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