> ...fine the teenager with a loud exhaust on his car ... I couldn't believe how mostly-positive the comments on this story[1] were! I get that loud cars at ni

> ...fine the teenager with a loud exhaust on his car ... I couldn't believe how mostly-positive the comments on this story[1] were! I get that loud cars at night suck ass. I've been there. I currently have a related problem of neighbors randomly lighting of fireworks at night, so I'm not unsympathetic to these quality-of-life issues. But there's something heartbreaking to see the hacker community—which was once overwhelmingly opposed to mass surveillance—starting to beg for it instead. Yeah, yeah, I know that HN is not a monolithic group; viewpoints do vary. But I can't shake the feeling that if the story below was posted to HN 10 years ago (or Slashdot 20 years ago), the comments would not have been so fawning. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31299641 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31299641