[secondcoming]

I see some people on HN, presumably Americans, start sentences with 'Like,...'

I find it annoying and it dims my view of the poster.

[cole-k]

I would encourage you to try and push past this feeling.

It's part of a natural change in dialect. There are instances of prejudice toward similar phenomena such as vocal fry or uptalk that have been shown to disproportionately be attributed to women, even though this is not the case.

(https://scholarworks.arcadia.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article... some reading I found on the subject)

[secondcoming]

Like, nah, I probably won't.