1) Criticism is easy, solutions are hard. Rather than just complain, you ought to have at least started the discussion with a proposal of your own. 2) If you w

1) Criticism is easy, solutions are hard. Rather than just complain, you ought to have at least started the discussion with a proposal of your own. 2) If you want to turn back the clock for HackerNews, you'd have to change the whole world. The complaints about "bro-grammers" and San Francisco being over run by startup douchebags are getting tired, but they're also true. Steve Jobs turned tech celebrities into today's rockstars, and the tenor of the average programming conversation in 2013 has deteriorated as a result. Every highschool slob in America who can solder a wire to a circuit board, or write a 4 line Python script, makes a self-important promo video impersonating Jonny Ive. GitHub is full of repos created by weekend programmers who make some pointless project that only appeals to other programmers and solves a problem that has been solved 1000 times since 1970. Tech has sex appeal now, and the world is awash with meatheads adopting the nerd aesthetic, and pretentious products created to crowdfund a quick buck. To "fix" hackernews, you would have address this change in global culture. Or you could just relax, deal with it, and skip over the links you dislike.