Fair.

I stand by my point though that the culture has significantly changed since 2012 - you of all people know that.

Just go back and look a decade ago at when people would post “hey we raise all this money” posts.

A full half of the comments would be like “nobody cares that you raise money are you actually doing something important?” or similar.

Tbh I think it was a healthier perspective, and we need to bring more “hacker” back.

I joined in '09 and I think I've changed pretty substantially, so the idea that this or any website would lock-in to a particular viewpoint isn't realistic IMO.

And you're being awfully reasonable now, once we've gotten past the bombastic opening claim. I think part of what makes HN great is that at least sometimes we can skip that opening wild claim.

I think this is just due to the maturation of the community; it has grown and diversified, so enthusiast hackers represent a smaller proportion of it. The same dynamic is at play in the tech community at large.