Here is the top post from exactly 10 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4956899 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4956899 Look at high quality

Here is the top post from exactly 10 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4956899 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4956899 Look at high quality comments such as: > Why is Stallman still BDFL if he hasn't contributed a meaningful amount of code in years? Let him be the spokesperson so he gets the attention he desperately needs and leave the coding standards to people who code. >> I wish people would stop parroting that stupid lie. RMS is curently heavily involved in GNU Emacs development and has been for many years. Just check the mailing list sometime. So I don't think that HN is getting worse, I think its just people who forget that it was bad back then as well.