This is true, I bought the "Hackers and Painters" book before discovering HN. Pretty inspiring at the time. This sort of interesting writing seems to have stop

This is true, I bought the "Hackers and Painters" book before discovering HN. Pretty inspiring at the time. This sort of interesting writing seems to have stopped in general. Spolsky and Yegge are other positive examples from that era, which of course is just 10 years ago.