HN has become a very conservative forum (in the temperamental, not political sense). There is far more skepticism of new technologies in the comments, and a muc

HN has become a very conservative forum (in the temperamental, not political sense). There is far more skepticism of new technologies in the comments, and a much stronger status quo bias than there used to be. But I think this is more reflective of a shift in the makeup of HN commenters than of society as a whole. The people I work with today don’t seem any different, on average, than the people I worked with 20 years ago.