I really am starting to get annoyed and disappointed with Hacker News. I’ve been on that site for 1,180 days and counting, and I can tell you that the quality of discussions have not only gone down, but the behavior of up voting and down voting comments has changed significantly.  It’s really made me question if “social news” is viable at all, but we’ll save those rantings for another blog post.  Maybe.

What’s got me irked this time around (see Nobody Masturbates on Hacker News for other reasons) started out with this lazy and inane blog post: Android vs iOS: A Developer’s Perspective.  I’m going to dissect and refute the post later on here, but what got me heated was that the comments dispelling the myths put forth in the blog post about memory management were being consistently down voted in the thread on HN and, instead, the glib, snarky and unhelpful ones scored much higher.

The fuck Hacker News?  If it wasn’t for the sanity on reddit, I’d be totally losing my shit right about now.

Anyways, let’s get to memory management in Objective-C, because that’s what started this all off.