Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

Oh, so now HN suddenly likes electrons?

> Because of my 40 million Coulombs, the force between myself and my “image self” would be something like 10^{20} tons. To give that some perspective, consider that 10^{20} tons is just a bit smaller than the weight of the entire planet earth. So the force pulling me toward the earth would be something like the force of a collision between the earth and the planet Mars.

Unnecessarily heavy imo.

And I'm just going to say, the person you do this to might not have the scientific experience to realize that the electrons are the reason why they can't move anymore and why they've ripped a hole in the vacuum, but they'll still notice the effect, so it's inaccurate to say that they don't care.



HN also seems very positive about Proton. Interesting that they aren't always negative about electron.


Looks like HN is just full of negative people.


That’s a serious charge.


It's hard to keep current on these things


this website goes in a cycle. electrons bad, electrons good. nobody holds a real position. the current "correct" take is a whim based on flavor-of-the-week politics.

and of course nobody here talks about the end user, or the social effects of electrons. please take some responsibility!!


You meant the “correct current take”, surely.


Worth noting that this electron cycle is important if you want to have a magnetic field.


It's a super position, really.


Did HN ever not like electrons? I kinda need them to dick around with computers, I was pretty sure most other people here were into that too.


(Joke explanation ahead:)

They are joking about HN not liking Electron (the framework).


I’m curious how people are getting it. Is it some sort of HN mindset or is just the HN crowd* 24/7 on about programming


It's pretty common for someone to complain whenever some application uses the electron framework and gets linked here.


I don't get it either...especially when tfa is so ripe for your-mom jokes.


Thank you, I also wasn't getting the joke.



I'm pretty sure it's a joke about the Electron software framework.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: