Thanks for posting this, it's much more in-depth and well-thought-out than what I posted. I think the older HN was more balanced - ie the famous Dropbox launch

Thanks for posting this, it's much more in-depth and well-thought-out than what I posted. I think the older HN was more balanced - ie the famous Dropbox launch thread had both "cool, my mom will love this" and "lame, I already do this with rsync". But even on the more general topics of climate change or capitalism, there was a decent mix - I remember one of the very first articles on Jacobinmag made it to the front page. Even if you don't subscribe to any of their ideology, it was still good to get exposed to it and consider it. I guess the worst thing that I could say about HN today is that it is not as interesting. As discussion becomes more monotonous and predictable, there's fewer new or surprising things that get brought up. I also think it's not really HN-specific, but a small website getting caught up in the zeitgeist.