Hacker News has always been Nitpicker News but it may have been gotten worse lately. If you post something personal there's always someone there to take a cheap

Hacker News has always been Nitpicker News but it may have been gotten worse lately. If you post something personal there's always someone there to take a cheap shot at you. If I write that I find Haskell difficult and complicated someone will reply that it is because I'm not smart enough and so on. One random example from something I posted two weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29987132 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29987132 Not that I'm better myself. HN's point system really favors knee-jerk reactions and one-liners: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30074128 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30074128