It's definitely not your imagination. I see articles here daily that if posted a year ago would have been criticized for not being worthy of Hacker News. Fortun

It's definitely not your imagination. I see articles here daily that if posted a year ago would have been criticized for not being worthy of Hacker News. Fortunately the discussion here is still mostly civil and intelligent. I've been reading a few haskell papers recently that I'll submit soon, but I think papers are more suitable submissions for weekends so people have time to digest them.