Man HN was a different place back then. People sharing ideas and getting constructive (even if comically wrong) feedback. It reads more like founders and hackers helping each other. The discussions lately are more like folks armchair analyzing or speculating companies that are already incumbent tech giants.

Or maybe I just click those headlines at a higher rate..

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brittlepeanut 7 hours ago | parent [-]

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malfist 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Says an account 13 minutes old.

	▲	nathanmills 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Wow, that means 13 minutes ago must've been the first time they've ever used the site
	▲	antinomicus 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yeah, what? Increasingly worried this site is bots talking to bots.

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supern0va 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And yet, it somehow has significantly better conversations than most places online. Maybe on par with reddit 10-15 years ago.

It's frankly depressing how few places there are to have quality conversations, particularly for general tech.

	▲	ricardobayes 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yes, although unfortunately the only problem with it, there's no way to contribute to older topics in a meaningful way. Due to the nature of this format not even the original author checks old comments and absolutely no chance any new conversation sparks out of it.
	▲	jsbisviewtiful 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> It's frankly depressing how few places there are to have quality conversations Yeah I used to learn so much across quite a few forums. Most of those communities are dead, dying, filled with bots or filled with people making shit up/just posting lousy jokes now. A lot of folks have jumped to Discord, which frankly, isn't for me, so feeling a bit lost on where to surf these days