am i the only one who codes by hand at work and for fun anymore?

society literally had to break down for years in order for us to add rules against it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War

if you hire 20 engineers with your seed round you are either very confident you'll be able to use them to justify another raise soon

or you're incompetent

> very confident you'll be able to use them to justify another raise soon

That is indeed how the VC funding game is played. If you don't raise another round, you are dead anyway, so you spend down your seed round to try and justify that following round...

I always assumed Rodney was an emacs user. And Zelenka vim.

illegally, yeah

Forums came before social media. It's a forum.

Forums don’t have algorithmic front page and upvote/downvote system

You can’t bump a thread to the top of HN so everyone sees it

No, people just keep reposting the same shit over and over instead. But the end effect is very similar, dang even links to old posts almost every time.

I don't think that quite makes it social media though.

HN is a secret third thing: A forum

no wonder it doesn't work well

vibe coded, it seems from the commit history (and readme lol)

these AI companies are high in their own supply

and/or they are really trying to shift norms where AI is required to exist (which is good for their financials)