https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=liljacobHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:57:55 +0000The users being generally unhelpful wasn't an issue for them, since they were still significantly more helpful than users anywhere else on the internet. Reddit was and still is filled with completely unvetted answers (on pretty much all topics not just programming), Quora was/is a joke, Yahoo answers had some funny posts I guess but nothing you could actually learn from, what else really was there? Before AI, Stack Overflow was as good as it gets.

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