There is also very bad moderation from HN moderators. Almost every thread discussing C/C++/Go is quickly spammed by Rust evangelist. Which makes it hard to discuss news about those languages.
If you'd like to help with that, you could let us know at hn@ycombinator.com when you see offtopic or generic tangents. We downweight those when we see them, but we don't come close to reading everything that gets posted here. There's far too much.