[mindcrime]

not to mention that back then, being in a startup was something great, nowadays it's frowned upon

Yeah, there's been a very notable shift here, in terms of the zeitgeist formerly being very pro-business, pro-startup, pro-innovation, and generally positive; and now the zeitgeist being very negative, cynical, anti-business, etc. Not to say that there aren't still voices on both ends of that spectrum, but the prevailing sentiment has clearly shifted.

I wouldn't say HN is "dying" but it's not the same site it used to be. I attribute that largely to a change in the composition of the community. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing is a question I'll leave for the philosophers.

[PaulHoule]

I don't know if I would quite put it that way, but I do remember techno-libertarianism being the dominant paradigm on HN at the beginning and for more leftish views to become common over time.