Why “techies” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
I'm not sure if an anecdote about the average Joe (billions still use Microsoft) really applies to educated techies (developers writing code). Since we are all trying to predict…
by amanaplanacanal · Oct 31, 2026
> love things more than people Society hated techies until we started getting ridiculous amounts of money and women figured out that they could marry a techie and instantly go u…
by anal_reactor · Oct 31, 2026
You need to spend a lot of time publishing, studying etc to become an academic it's not a highly social pursuit. In fact techies in order to achieve anything mostly have to oper…
by iorrus · Oct 31, 2026
Silicon Valley is worse than average because they're mostly techies and techies are people that on average love things more than people and have low empathy. They also lean isol…
by oblio · Oct 31, 2026
> Techies are getting a glimpse at how other employees have always been treated all along, and they don't like it. Oh trust me. We knew all along but we always viewed 'other emp…
by dominotw · Oct 30, 2026
Techies are getting a glimpse at how other employees have always been treated all along, and they don't like it. Maybe they'll start unionising more, back in the days as long as…
by 233mhz · Oct 30, 2026
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