A lot of the discussion here is just mirroring the times we live in. People are confused and scared about COVID, they are flummoxed by the wild west (which is o

A lot of the discussion here is just mirroring the times we live in. People are confused and scared about COVID, they are flummoxed by the wild west (which is over the top wild) in cryptocurrency/NFT land, and there's a lot of frustration with big tech companies. So, there really is a bit of disillusionment and sometimes the anger is real and justified (e.g. my app was banned after five years from Google Play/iTunes by an AI and there are no humans to help)... HN hasn't lost what makes it a great community: optimism abounds, people are generally encouraging when people take a risk (except that one guy who can't resist being the devil's advocate) lot of optimism, and most importantly, HN isn't a sounding chamber for some political group.