[ArchieScrivener]

Are people reading this or just up voting the title? Sounds like someone who screwed up their life, likely by being stubborn, and doing a lot of drugs, which doesn't take knowing how to code to pull off. Reads like a love letter to misery by someone who knew they would never be truly affected by it.

[hn_throwaway_99]

There's a good saying, "People become homeless not when they run out of money, but when they run out of relationships."

This post reads to me like someone suffering from mental illness and/or personality disorder.

[mettamage]

This is the first time I'm seeing that phrase. And I think it hits the nail on the head.

[dd8601fn]

The blog and the contents of the post both indicate it’s someone writing about a time they were homeless and suffering from psychosis.

[znpy]

> This post reads to me like someone suffering from mental illness and/or personality disorder.

Sometimes people are just assholes, eh.

I don't have the data to say this is the case, but "just being an asshole" is a circumstance that is often under-considered.

[tossandthrow]

He explicitly writes that he did not do drugs or alcohol.

It would seem like it is some kind of felony charges that are the cause. Whatever they were.

But all in all - the downside risk is huge in the US.

[ryanjshaw]

The style of writing and strange segways suggest mental illness; the blog description seems to confirm it.

[curtisblaine]

> He explicitly writes that he did not do drugs or alcohol

> My public defender reminded me of a woman I did ayahuasca with in upstate New York.

Well...

[compsciphd]

he explicitly says he has done ayahuasca. So he is someone who at least in the past did recreational drugs.

[hn_throwaway_99]

> He explicitly writes that he did not do drugs or alcohol.

What are you talking about? He specifically mentions drinking beer and doing ayahuasca in the past.

[Razengan]

I assumed this was a support group or service for tech workers who ended up homeless, and upvoted for that, and then took back my upvote after reading these comments :')

[nothrabannosir]

Ignore the comments, read the article instead. One of the worst comment threads on HN so far, if you ask me. The only time I wish the comments were all LLM generated, because that would explain how they could miss the underlying humanity so thoroughly.

[imiric]

Sure, we don't know the entire backstory, but can we agree that no person should live in these conditions? Especially in one of the richest places in the world. Everyone deserves dignity, food, and shelter.

Also, can we stop stigmatizing "drug" use? Most of humanity uses "drugs" regularly for various reasons. Just because a specific "drug" which someone enjoys using recreationally is on a government list doesn't mean that they can't be a productive member of society. Live and let live.

[pierrekin]

It’s hard to respond to a call for “everyone to agree” in an online forum but yes.

Even people who are self or outwardly destructive, do not deserve the outcome the author got.

I think a harder to answer question is, assuming there are not enough resources to help everyone in need (in a practical sense) should we prioritise the “more deserving” over the less.

Every human who is suffering deserves compassion, but should we deprioritise those who are suffering partially because of their own choices?

[hn_throwaway_99]

He was given food and shelter, and then he left on his own volition. He wasn't willing to stay in a shelter unless he had a private room so he stole some stuff from some stores so he could sleep under a bridge.

[ponector]

>> no person should live in these conditions

Do you suggest they should be forced to the asylum for mentally ill people?