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 pc86 on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:46PM (#50429739)

> Now it’s just Reddit-style comment sections of people picking at each other.

Absolute nonsense.

> > Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills. [https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html]

The guidelines post above links to nine comments echoing yours, some almost 20 years old.

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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by close04 on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:24PM (#50430401)

Those ~20 year old comments compared HN to Reddit of that time, which was insulting to HN. In the 20 years that passed probably HN at some point crossed the threshold of old Reddit. But now the insult is to compare it to current Reddit.

On the other hand putting it in the rules that you’re not allowed to say X and then quoting the rule as evidence against X is at the very least not an intellectually interesting way of making a point. Imagine if everyone put in their profile that they’re never wrong and kept pointing at that when challenged.

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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by Ariarule on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:20PM (#50431408)

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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by nyeah on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:06PM (#50432141)

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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by nyeah on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:04PM (#50432107)

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