Slightly off-topic, but can I say how great it is that there are still people doing things they like for fun, and sharing the experience with others on an advert-free platform without any particular expectations of profit? In my view that's what the hacker culture is about, and the sort of thing I come to HN for.
Reading all the incessant headlines on HN recently about web3 and the tokensisation and monetisation and hyper-financialisation of everything, it is easy to think that the end days of hacker culture are nigh, with every interaction driven by the expectation of personal profit, and no-one doing anything any more simply because they are fun, or because they are the right thing to do, or just because they can.
Reading all the incessant headlines on HN recently about web3 and the tokensisation and monetisation and hyper-financialisation of everything, it is easy to think that the end days of hacker culture are nigh, with every interaction driven by the expectation of personal profit, and no-one doing anything any more simply because they are fun, or because they are the right thing to do, or just because they can.