5 years ago this wouldn't have made it to the front page, let alone have so many comments defending it as intellectually honest. Notice how no one ever laments

5 years ago this wouldn't have made it to the front page, let alone have so many comments defending it as intellectually honest. Notice how no one ever laments how "HN is turning into Reddit"? There used to be a statement specifically about saying this in the HN guidelines. No one says this anymore because the full Reddit-ification of HN happened a while ago.