My feeling is that a large enough part of Hacker News has been any time within the last 10 years actively contributing in Stack Overflow. From my own experience

My feeling is that a large enough part of Hacker News has been any time within the last 10 years actively contributing in Stack Overflow. From my own experience, I learned how to ask/answer technical questions and participate in a technical discussion there while trying not to keep it political, and I totally feel that has helped me to provide good comments in HN from time to time. So I would challenge the sentences: > And yet, I haven’t found a public internet forum with better technical commentary. I have, it's StackOverflow. Even though it is not a public internet forum properly, I've found there some awesome technical commentaries there and I think it might have helped HN a lot on that side.