I love computers. I hate the BS: I don't care about that new sillicon valley project. But I do care about that new project that's going to change how we think about computing. I care about the programming language that will show me a radically different way to program. I care about the tool that's so elegantly designed that it takes 5 minutes to explain how it works, and does its job amazingly well.
I care about things that remind me why I got into computing in the first place: For the sheer joy of it.
About half: The half that's about cool tech, not SV culture, not boring startup news, and not polical BS surrounding a project (I don't care what they said, I do care about the software they wrote).
I do care about that which impacts actual systems, like the incresing movement towards systemd (which is an awful idea).
It would be interesting to write a browser plugin that allowed you to subscribe to users on HN to see what they liked/upvoted, your interests and mine apparently align quite closely and there is a lot on the HN frontpage I just don't care about.
OTOH, it's good to see what the hivemind is excited about. I mostly go to HN for news, posting my thoughts, and having a discussion if one arises.
But HN isn't a great place for discussion. If I really want discussion, I'll go to lainchan.
Speaking of lainchan, if you enjoy cyberpunk at all, you should go read lainzine (https://lainzine.neocities.org) right now: if you're anything like me, you'll gaze with a mixture of fascination and horror upon one of the strangest things I've seen on the internet.
I've never liked the term "hivemind", it implies an us/them divide where none exists and it's frequently used as a pejorative, "I'm different/better than the hivemind" (note: I'm not saying this what you are doing just that the hivemind thing is over used).
We are all part of the same zeitgeist, just in different parts of it at different times.
I've never heard of lainchan but I'll have a look and I love cyberpunk so I'll take a look at that as well, thank you :).
On a slightly un-related note this tendency to self-organise into tribes/cliques and then hurl shit at the other side drives me crazy, There is far more that binds us than divides us and yet I frequently hear "I hate liberals, I hate republicans, I hate Appletards, I hate Linux users, I hate Javascript users, I hate PHP users, I hate <insert anything where they picked a different path/choice>".
I'm not even sure why we do it possibly an evolutionary reason of "My tribe good, that tribe bad", it's easy to rationalize a world where anyone who agrees with you is inherently good and everyone else is at best wrong and worst malevolent.
As I get older I realised that someone holding a different view/choice to mine means I should look more critically at my view/choice often I'll realise that the other person made a valid/good choice for them and possibly for me, dogmatism is rarely a good thing.
I care about things that remind me why I got into computing in the first place: For the sheer joy of it.