It is my feeling that there has been an uptick of negativity for the last few years. Well before AI.

I understand people have their reasons to be negative about tech but they could go somewhere else to post their comments. Going to a Star Wars forum to tell everyone how much Star Wars sucks would be nonsensical. Imagine a Star Wars forum full of people saying Star Wars sucks. That’s how I HN has felt for years now.

I’ve taken breaks from this site from time to time because eventually it just makes you feel bad. It wears you down.

> I understand people have their reasons to be negative about tech but they could go somewhere else to post their comments.

Are they complaining about the tech or are they complaining that bad people are doing bad things with it?

The current hot topic with me is LLMs. Someone could be doing nice things with it, but the only ones I see are making "educational" videos with hallucinated information. By the time I figure out that the channel is slop, I now have to purge several videos worth of fake facts from my knowledge base. And all this so someone can make a quick buck off of youtube ads.

"Imagine a Star Wars forum full of people saying Star Wars sucks."

Then you might be surprised. I'm old enough to remember Episode I and the ... love for Jar-Jar shortly after the release of the movie.

>Going to a Star Wars forum to tell everyone how much Star Wars sucks would be nonsensical. Imagine a Star Wars forum full of people saying Star Wars sucks. That’s how I HN has felt for years now.

Have you ever interacted with a fandom?

No one complains about Star Wars as much as Star Wars fans.

I agree with you about HN sucking all the joy out of everything, but that's been part of the culture for as long as I can remember. And when Show HN is almost nothing but AI slop and landing pages and half the threads are people shitting on programming and anyone who cares about it as an art or a science, or as anything but a means to generate monetary value, the frustration is understandable. HN seems to be undergoing a cultural schism and a lot of people just don't belong to it anymore.