YHK - yet another hacker news clone

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14 points surprisetalk 3 days ago 10 comments

15o9o 3 days ago | parent

true hacker!

comrade1234 28 minutes ago | parent

Do adults drink milk?

Anonbrit 25 minutes ago | parent

Yes

TheSamFischer 23 minutes ago | parent

Yes, it’s delicious.

IncreasePosts 20 minutes ago | parent

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

uptrails 15 minutes ago | parent

Uhhh, it's a major ingredient in cooking?

SV_BubbleTime 23 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 9 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.

lubujackson 1 minute ago | parent

We have repaired both our washer and dryer several times over the past 15 years since we bought them - YT makes this easy nowadays. I am far from handy but I can follow clear instructions and it seems newer models have only gotten more brittle and have shit like internet connectivity, which I do not want nor need. I would much rather they use 50 cents more for key metallic parts instead of shoddy plastic.