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 corytheboyd on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:08PM (#50432174)

Guess I’ve been on this site for… 14 years? Dang. The trends seem to have always come and gone, along with the snarky picking apart of individuals framed as intellectual discussion. Yet, it remains a high value discussion board, where in passing, I learn about great tools and approaches to problem solving that I work into my own arsenal of thing doing.

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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by coolestguy on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:12PM (#50432233)

Every time I see a post like this about any topic, all I think is that the poster has matured but the content is still aimed at the previous self, since newcomers are in their position now

Nothing has changed except the poster - they were previously part of the snarky individuals, or at least tolerated it, and now have moved on

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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by corytheboyd on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:17PM (#50432293)

I was definitely part of the snark in my earlier days, swept up by it all. It contributed to making me a worse person, so I stepped back for a long time, decided that I needed my opinions to not only be my own, but constructive. Tearing people and ideas down is exactly against the spirit of hacking about.

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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by reverse_list on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @04:52AM (#50438099)

I like to indulge in tech nostalgia and find and dig up old news. Which brings me often to pre 2010 HN conversations. I can say that there were as many if not more "low-effort" posts and jokes back then that wouldn't be accepted today by the HN no-fun serious-replies-only police.

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