65% of Hacker News Posts Have Negative Sentiment, and They Outperform

Re:65% of Hacker News Posts Have Negative Sentiment, and The... by Workaccount2 on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @11:26AM (#46514418)

I was chronically on reddit daily from when Digg collapsed until they pulled the API. I was long overdue to leave by that point anyway.

Now in the last couple years, both my sisters have discovered reddit, and hanging out with them is like the god damn /r/all comments sections all over again. So insidious.

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Re:65% of Hacker News Posts Have Negative Sentiment, and The... by scottyah on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @11:59AM (#46514902)

I am very much in the same boat. I still browse every now and then, and now it feels like I can spot a redditor from two opinions/values in a conversation. It's definitely turned more mainstream and more indoctrinating. If Fox News turned our parents political, reddit is doing it to our generation.

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Re:65% of Hacker News Posts Have Negative Sentiment, and The... by mstipetic on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @01:43PM (#46516621)

I think often times they’re not wrong but then again what do I do with this constant barrage of cynicism, can’t change much anyway

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