HN is fantastic for surfacing up and coming technologies. Reading HN daily is almost like a superpower. The HN community is...not so great...at predicting whic

HN is fantastic for surfacing up and coming technologies. Reading HN daily is almost like a superpower. The HN community is...not so great...at predicting which things are exciting and the industry should adopt. If it were the industry would have settled on a LISP dialect long ago, the web would have adopted good readability standards (based on thousands of meta-complaints on virtually every top rated post on any topic), and mobile app development would still be a growing and profitable business (and Apple would finally be catering to niche HN reader needs).