[shinzui]

The best part of reading technical content is the discussion in the comments – Medium makes that impossible.

[penpapersw]

I've seen many technical articles link to an HN post for discussion instead of using Disqus or hosting on something like medium.

[Qub3d]

I get it, too. HN is a threaded comment system, which we've been iterating on since the USENET days.

Not that threaded comments are the solution for everything, but it excels at visually separating each of the distinct discussions that may arise around a given topic.