"There is still quality in HN. HN is still changing people's professional futures" This. This is the point. I think many regulars forget this, because nothing

"There is still quality in HN. HN is still changing people's professional futures" This. This is the point. I think many regulars forget this, because nothing is new to them. How many times can you see "How to scale a web server" or "CSS is broken" or "How I built an MVP" type posts before you know them by heart? But for people newer to the community, these things are golden. There's a famous quote: "Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."" We all want to be great minds on HN, and the rules explicitly try to keep out posts about news (which is mostly events and people). Problem is, the rate of new "idea" posts isn't large enough to keep the front page busy. And we want to keep the front page busy, because the real reason most of us come to HN is to hear other people's opinions about ideas.