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Yes. HN is groupthink central, and enforces it through down votes, which marks the account as low quality, which then turns off commenting for that account. It is a classic negative feedback loop that enforces the groupthink. You can tell how many accounts I've created by the account number.

It wasn't a request for information, since you can obviously look it up. It was a critique on people's inability to imagine their audience, particularly once it scales.

I just put VScode in vim mode and rely on its basic symbol completion. My goal has always been to write as little as possible by thinking out the minimum solution. The simpler the code, the easier it is to reason about and to maintain.

We sample it, and upon finding problems, adjust the system to eliminate that class of problems in the future.