I love the message, and generally agree.

Theres a layer of pessimism to engineers and hacker news that has been steadily growing (as I assume the average age increases).

To me it's hit a critical level and I have to disregard most negative comments here by default because I can no longer trust the average commenter to have a productive balance of optimism and curiousity.

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On a different note, the point the author is trying to make is massively undercut by the ad spam all over their page.

It was so grotesque (and out of character for a dev blog) that my first assumption was that I had a malicious extension somewhere.