I think the consumer is part of the problem with news. I won't lie, I come to hacker news everyday and even multiple times a day and refresh hoping to see some

I think the consumer is part of the problem with news. I won't lie, I come to hacker news everyday and even multiple times a day and refresh hoping to see some new article talking about something controversial or new or ingenious. How can you keep publishing content like that day after day? At some point, you have to inflate things a little, extrapolate, or even enter the realm of reporting on hypothetical and what ifs.