Others have pointed out to several other points. I agree with those. My personal reasons are these: 1. Without HN, I would not have known about Nand2Tetris, O

Others have pointed out to several other points. I agree with those. My personal reasons are these: 1. Without HN, I would not have known about Nand2Tetris, OCaml, Non-Linear Dynamics, Neal Stephenson, Greg Egan, or Aaron Schwartz. In a way, HN has changed my life. I came to know and love functional programming, I came to know about great resources on Computation, Programming, advanced Math and so many more things. Culture outside of HN is much duller, and no offense, are for people with much lesser intelligence. Especially for someone like me who weren’t born in Stanford or UCLA-B uni campus. I am sure that there are places with better culture exist- that are better fit for the intellectual minds. But, HN is a paradise to me. It honestly changed my life. I come here regularly for the educational resources recommended in comments and posted here as stories. 2. It is a good news source, and that news that are super interesting for hackers are encouraged to post here- is super nice. 3. It has less political noise and the discussions are nuanced. I can find, albeit in minority, sane right wing voices here. Where all other major outlets are overrun by the super-woke ideology, and even sane RW voices are deplatformed and banned from forums, it is refreshing to see some opposing voices in here. (I am a common-sense abiding humanist, and definitely more left than right, I still see reasons in many RW arguments and agree to some of their policies.) It's very nice that, in HN, RW voices are not supressed.