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 nsoam on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:16PM (#50430268)

It is my feeling that there has been an uptick of negativity for the last few years. Well before AI.

I understand people have their reasons to be negative about tech but they could go somewhere else to post their comments. Going to a Star Wars forum to tell everyone how much Star Wars sucks would be nonsensical. Imagine a Star Wars forum full of people saying Star Wars sucks. That’s how I HN has felt for years now.

I’ve taken breaks from this site from time to time because eventually it just makes you feel bad. It wears you down.

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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by fhdkweig on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:35PM (#50430635)

> I understand people have their reasons to be negative about tech but they could go somewhere else to post their comments.

Are they complaining about the tech or are they complaining that bad people are doing bad things with it?

The current hot topic with me is LLMs. Someone could be doing nice things with it, but the only ones I see are making "educational" videos with hallucinated information. By the time I figure out that the channel is slop, I now have to purge several videos worth of fake facts from my knowledge base. And all this so someone can make a quick buck off of youtube ads.

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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by krapp on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:56PM (#50430994)

>Going to a Star Wars forum to tell everyone how much Star Wars sucks would be nonsensical. Imagine a Star Wars forum full of people saying Star Wars sucks. That’s how I HN has felt for years now.

Have you ever interacted with a fandom?

No one hates Star Wars as much as Star Wars fans.

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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by icantevenhold on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:29PM (#50431575)

I wish I was special

But I'm a creep

I'm a weirdo

What the hell am I doing here?

I don't belong here

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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by breezybottom on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:36PM (#50431690)

Case in point. This isn't reddit, and song lyrics aren't funny or insightful.

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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by icantevenhold on Monday November 09, 2026 @09:41PM (#50435428)

Well they are more funny and insightful than the millionth “HN is Reddit” comment

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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by VLM on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:08PM (#50431203)

"Imagine a Star Wars forum full of people saying Star Wars sucks."

Then you might be surprised. I'm old enough to remember Episode I and the ... love for Jar-Jar shortly after the release of the movie.

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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by enaaem on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:13PM (#50432240)

During my teens I used to hang out on a Naruto fan forum, and it eventually became a Naruto hate forum. Understandable though, because the serie really sucked after a while. The memes and essays were fun.

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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by nyeah on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:01PM (#50432068)

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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by nyeah on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:23PM (#50432370)

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