I log into LinkedIn a few times a week. The posts are a parade of fakery and insincerity. Compared to that, HN has much better discourse, because the focus is o

I log into LinkedIn a few times a week. The posts are a parade of fakery and insincerity. Compared to that, HN has much better discourse, because the focus is on your ideas, not on you personally. There is no careerist agenda at work on HN. I have not gotten the impression that HN is an existential crisis echo chamber (it's an echo chamber in many ways for sure). Maybe you are clicking on posts that are of the existential crisis echo chamber kind. Or perhaps wading into debates in the comment section that heighten that feeling. You could see if desisting from commenting (or even reading comments except on purely technical topics) and reading non-technical stories helps improve your experience here. It's really what you make of it, not just what the site provides.