> It’s much harder to find threads with deep, nuanced conversations today than it was even a few years ago. My impression has been similar. The original discou

> It’s much harder to find threads with deep, nuanced conversations today than it was even a few years ago. My impression has been similar. The original discourse, logical reasoning and critical thinking is seriously lacking now in discussions. I see higher frequency of "citation needed" type of low effort comments that assume no one posting can have original thinking without it being thought by someone else and published already somewhere else online. In similar vain, responses seems to be very severe and personal when someone finds something online contrary to what someone posted. More and more HN participants seem to assume if it is published and available online, specially in research paper format or discoursed by a "popular" personality, it has more credibility irrespective of quality. On the positive side, I see lot more variety of topics discussed on HN, previously topics used to be mostly tech and startup related and very infrequently finance related. Now, I can find discussions even related to energy, material science, medical sciences etc though lacking in depth. IMO, overall HN reflects rest of the internet, availability of more and more information easily accessible has reduced the ability to critically analyze and logically reason through problems and present arguments.