Is it really a different universe than going back one year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2025-11-08

or, for that matter, one month?

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2026-10-08

Similar perceptions have been around since before Hacker News was even named Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13852).