Hacker News became Nitpicker News a long time ago. Might be a dysfunction caused by employment. In software development a "nit" (i.e a bug such as as null point

Hacker News became Nitpicker News a long time ago. Might be a dysfunction caused by employment. In software development a "nit" (i.e a bug such as as null pointer dereference) ruins the whole experience. In most other fields such a nit would be wholly irrelevant.