This article does apply greatly to HN, being a discussion board. Like the author states, I often tend to find myself reacting emotionally to arguments made. But one thing I do find that I also do is synthesize the arguments over time.

It has happened several times where I've completely flip flopped my position over the span of a week or two. It's rarely apparent in the context of a given thread, but I do try to really consider the arguments when "offline".

In politics this rarely happens as the ideology underlying the politics is usually more important than the political issue at hand. In tech though, there is a greater chance of discussion actually having real change.