I feel like I've heard people saying that about HN every month for the past 8 years and I've never observed any real pattern. Think there's just some observatio

I feel like I've heard people saying that about HN every month for the past 8 years and I've never observed any real pattern. Think there's just some observation bias going on: a website always seems like it's recently been worse than you remember, at any point in time, because you remember recent bad things but not further back ones.