> I always struggle with their articles because it feels like they built it for rage bait on a topic and leave the other interesting topics out of it.

I was going to say a very similar thing, and this is something I strongly disagree with when it comes to HN's moderation, and it goes like this:

The product is the outrage.

And HN should know better and mods should actively discourage, warn and prevent accounts (who karma farm, among other things) from even being able to post rage-bait articles. These aren't "hacker curiosities", they're just insipid bullshit. We wasted time and learned nothing.