[navjack27]

I think there's less toxicity here than this person points out.

The one thing you would notice about this website if you view it as often as scrolling the new posts constantly like I do is that there is a problem with reposting or people not being aware that the thing was already posted and a general laziness about checking if a thing was already posted. Also a whole lot of trend following in the guise of original thought. Especially with LLMs and machine learning in general.

There's also the really strange phenomena of people just posting links to Wikipedia for a thing with no context, and I always find those very hilarious because I wonder what the person posting it was thinking and what they were trying to communicate by posting it.

There's also a thing that you notice where everybody on here pretty much just follows a work week schedule and most of the posting happens during the week and weekends everyone's off basically from hacker News. The heat map is very predictable. Even Time Wise, during the day for the United States is where the majority of the posts happen and during the middle of the night early morning stuff just trickles in. There's almost no reason to ever look at the front page on here because you could very easily keep up with just reading new.

Hacker News in general is very tame. It's very predictable. And it's kind of not actually all that innovative with original thought, except for very rare exceptions on occasion. But it's the easiest "social network" link posting and commenting website to get along with by far.