YHK - yet another hacker news clone

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13 points surprisetalk 3 days ago 8 comments

15o9o 3 days ago | parent

true hacker!

comrade1234 24 minutes ago | parent

Do adults drink milk?

Anonbrit 21 minutes ago | parent

Yes

TheSamFischer 19 minutes ago | parent

Yes, it’s delicious.

IncreasePosts 16 minutes ago | parent

In america and Europe where adult lactose intolerance isn't common, yes. Not universally but a lot do.

uptrails 11 minutes ago | parent

Uhhh, it's a major ingredient in cooking?

SV_BubbleTime 19 minutes ago | parent

Am I missing something?

“I thought our fridge was going bad, I replaced a part and it seems to have worked”

Is this worthy of a blog entry and hackernews? I think many adults end up doing this every couples months.

wowczarek 5 minutes ago | parent

Exactly.

Reaching for a repairman (or worse, replacing the thing) is in many backgrounds and countries still a modern luxury. Instilling the idea that things like this are left to "true" professionals is the goal of decades-long commercial conditioning of now generations of humans. So yes, no wonder that someone sees this as amazing - I see this as simply what one does; fixing things.

My mum knew how to do a quick fan belt or radiator fix in the middle of nowhere when the car broke down, and I wouldn't call her a hacker for that, and it really was nothing special, in the context of how widely people fixed things like that.

And then people don't know how to sew on a proverbial button, so, yeah.