could anybody who downvoted this please explain why?
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This post contains interesting technical implementation details as to AMD's latest entry into the desktop CPU arena, which by all accounts is very strong competition with Intel's offerings. (Faster and cheaper!) This is relevant to anyone with more than a passing interest in doing things computers, though the exact level of personal interest may vary.
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> Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site.
Whether your original comment was meant to indicate complaint, it certainly comes across that way.
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Well I'm skeptical, but it was a genuine question. I am doubly skeptical that the best response to skepticism is downvoting rather than articulating a response.
Downvoting doesn't mean your post was bad. It just means that it shouldn't be at the top of the thread because it's irrelevant. I downvoted the top post because when opening this thread, I should see actual discussion about the article before seeing "why was this upvoted?".
I guess that's a fair enough explanation of the original question being downvoted.
However that same logic couldn't really justify the downvoting of my follow-up "could anybody who downvoted this please explain why?"
True, I think that people were just over-reacting to what they saw as spam and downvoted all of it.
It's a comment that implies the post is uninteresting and asks for justification of people caring. That by itself makes for a terrible and noncontributing comment.
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
I wasn't implying it was against the community guidelines.
What I was suggesting was that new hardware always comes out and it's always bigger/faster (and even 2x improvement isn't even historically that much). Are the people upvoting this because they think every single new piece of hardware is newsworthy, or that there's something special here (e.g. they feel intel has a monopoly and are invested in AMDs success), or are they shill accounts ?
I think you're reading into it too hard. It's just neat to find out that there's more than meets the eye here.
> or are they shill accounts
If you know something the mods don't, email them. But that's not a particularly nice thing to insinuate.
There could hardly be an article that's more in HN's wheelhouse. Upvotes are the least surprising thing ever.
I am always interested in AMD vs Intel articles, and am excited that the competition is heating up again.
I'd also like to point out the above question got downvoted to -4 as well.