I've been here close to 1000 days now. I've seen a lot of online communities get popular and lose what made them special, but so far, HN has been remarkably res

I've been here close to 1000 days now. I've seen a lot of online communities get popular and lose what made them special, but so far, HN has been remarkably resilient in the face of serious growth. HN has a lot going for it. The sparse look and scary name keep out most of the undesirables. It's hard to turn a place called "Hacker News" into yet another funny cat pictures board. Looking at the front page right now, I'd say things are still very much on topic: Collision detection, hash tables, Amazon S3, C++ style guide, etc, etc... Sure there's a couple lame Techcrunch articles, and maybe a bit of current events, but if you go back and look, those things have always made the front page in limited numbers. If there's one thing I'd do, it's make the "new" page time-based, instead of strictly limited to 30 items. Everything should get an hour to percolate before being pushed to page 2.