It's not just Hacker News, it's all over the place. The term has lost all meaning and basically just means someone that's making a mistake or does something the

It's not just Hacker News, it's all over the place. The term has lost all meaning and basically just means someone that's making a mistake or does something the writer disagrees with. I see it all over social media where before it would've been "10 pitfalls of X", it's "10 mistakes Junior devs make when learning X". Or if somebody disagrees with someone else about technological discussion, the goto insult is that the other person is a junior dev, instead of maybe thinking that other people have different perspectives.