Hacker news is not social media. I have never recognized a user/username in between two sessions. And I would probably miss the mythical PG if he showed up in a thread. I don't know his handle anyways. Sometimes I'm made aware that a relevant "celebrity" is present in the thread but that's when people act obviously star struck like "oh thank you for that seminal paper back in '15".
So nothing social going on here, just weird/interesting discussions between persons x, y, z, i, j and k.
Edit: I just noticed that some usernames are green. I don't know what that signifies and I do not want to know.
So nothing social going on here, just weird/interesting discussions between persons x, y, z, i, j and k.
Edit: I just noticed that some usernames are green. I don't know what that signifies and I do not want to know.