[alfalfasprout]

This website is mostly full of very junior developers that just click on articles they think "sound smart" or are a hot take they agree with.

Don't get me wrong, it's also one of the few places where you find experts from all sorts of industry mingling. But the quality of commentary on HN has plummeted in the last 10 years.

[dang]

"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community." It's reliably a marker of bad comments and worse threads.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html