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Hacker News and submission-driven news sites in general are a way of bringing a constant stream of exceptional things to your attention. They are not a good cross-section of what's going on the world because almost everything that's going on isn't exceptional. Millions of Americans felt love yesterday. That's not Hacker News.

If you're actually getting depressed by this (and you wouldn't be the first) then you need to stop and take stock of the real world through your real senses and think about how much of your life you want to burn up on things that don't actually involve you or that you can't or won't do anything about. You have to ask yourself how many of those things you actually care about personally vs. how many are just sensory input you're just reacting to because it's been put in front of you. If you care, you can do something. If you don't, you can turn off the input.