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Re:65% of Hacker News Posts Have Negative Sentiment, and The... by lostlogin on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @11:23AM (#46514373)
This is hilarious, particularly the last sentence.

The absolute key feature is the domain experts, not the karma. Any time any subject comes up, someone appears that knows everything about the subject and lives in the field. It’s the single best thing about HN by a million miles.

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Re:65% of Hacker News Posts Have Negative Sentiment, and The... by chasd00 on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @02:26PM (#46517285)
The domain experts present here is pretty amazing i have to agree. I love when you get a comment that's like "oh, you have that wrong it's X instead of Y. I invented this technology 30 years ago, here's the reasoning behind X..."
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