https://blog.codesolvent.com/2016/10/hype-on-hacknews-and-silicon-valley.html Skip to main content Codesolvent Blog Turbo-charging developer productivity Search Search This Blog [ ] [SUBMIT] Hype on HackNews and Silicon Valley October 04, 2016 One of the consequences of refusing to drink the in vogue kool-aid is that you remain sober and take in the full brunt of the silliness going on around you. The technology industry overflows with such silliness, like any credible geek I spend too much time reading HackerNews even when I don't want to. One odd phenomenon I have observed over the past few years is the fact that there is a rather peculiar writing style in Silicon Valley, seemingly meant to make writing more efficient in conveying hype. Specifically, the desire to create emphasis when otherwise the point being made is prosaic has lead people in Silicon Valley to come up with this odd writing style where adverbs are deployed in ways that no decent writer would. Let's just say a good chunk of "influencers" in SV suffer from Hype-Nitis. I have gleefully collected a small sample of these gems on HackerNews over the past couple of years: atrociously bad crucially important astonishingly successful growingly wants to be secular closely involved and crucially helpful severely unique and an incredible thing to witness Something is dramatically wrong with her It is an exceptionally great salary early decline are vastly significant made an amazingly interesting point It was a hugely important quarter You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. team massively grew the hugely important and popular site startup to a significantly larger organization hugely newsworthy figure This is insanely sad. This brilliant woman had so much left to share with us. The OP is impressively throrough informatively good *Updated 2023* VuePress is impressively easy This is a phenomenally good resource This was exceptionally immaturely handled forced to use the atrociously terrible be taking this crisis gravely seriously but that's drastically untrue but it's vastly useful, and surprisingly versatile massively better than Teams is amazingly perfect for startlingly worse case so massively improperly run and managed day of massively lost customer trust The blog post is greatly interesting This can massively simplify the technology estate would meaningfully damage public discourse How to Write Usefully the tool makes it deadly simple to use! I'm horrendously worried about crypto lightning fast and trivially easy decently interesting you are extremely subject to the whims is radically impressive remarkably closer to profitability infinitely faster and more straightforward amazingly impressive as always doesn't seem exceptionally promising account is stunningly probably very accurate crappiness is unexplainably funny but growth is substantially dead sentiment has massively shifted being massively adapted in the near future These are distinctly different tasks I maybe hugely mistaken but they massively shifted their allocation are wonderfully small, WFH was massively better Smells deeply bad. the withdrawal of substantially all uninsured deposits MASSIVELY decrease our home values, the quality of life of ourselves and our neighbors and IMMENSELY increase the noise pollution and traffic." 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