Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering another, better universe

Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by rcarticulate on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:22PM (#50429388)

I don't know, the frontpage looks fine today?

- Canada payment system - folding paper airplanes - Solar panels - Raspberry pi price increases - a bunch of show hns - how does malloc work

There are more AI posts that's for sure, but it's also not that bad? It's also heavily affecting the livelihood of many people here (for better and often worse), so it's reasonable that it would be prevalent.

There's always been grumpy engineers here, on stackoverflow, reddit, everywhere. Lots of grumpy engineers are also amazing engineers. There's newbies proud to show something, even though it's not really always that great, some people dunk, some people encourage etc.

I still like it here.

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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by suzzer99 on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:13PM (#50432245)

Same, I still think this is one of the last places to get mostly bot-free high-level discourse. Thankfully other than certain threads, I don't think the incentive is there for botfarms to game this place.

Currently every top reply on X, and most top replies on Facebook and IG, are some contrarian engagement-bait bot nonsense.

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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by nunez on Monday November 09, 2026 @06:42PM (#50433993)

if you use an aggregator to get your daily dose of HN like I do, the all-AI-all-the-time FUD is much more prevalent

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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by gonzalohm on Monday November 09, 2026 @06:43PM (#50434003)

> There's newbies proud to show something, even though it's not really always that great

I think that's the problem. They don't even make it themselves, they just use AI

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