I think you guys are succumbing to a nostalgia-filtered view of HN's past.

An unspoken inference from when you've made posts like this is that HN has largely only changed in terms of scale, that the overall community culture has been relatively static. What are the indicators that would catch your attention to indicate a cultural shift, whether they are improving the site or diminishing it?

Rose colored glasses are just a manual version of f.lux

But more seriously, I mentioned the "dotcom boom" to someone today, they didn't know what it was, because they were 2 at the time.

I had to explain it as a combination of the GFC and the current AI boom.