[ajross]

It's a digression, but there's more truth to this than the snark would indicate. Five years ago, this was a site for hackers building companies, and the emphasis was clearly on the "building" part. It rapidly took over from similar spots (/r/programming, slashdot) as the center of consciousness for web-focused developer discussion. Now, it's entirely preoccupied with the "companies" part -- what platforms to target, how to manage funding, etc... Many of the hackers seem to have gone silent.

Or else they've migrated somewhere else, and I haven't been able to find them...

[ionforce]

I would love to find a community for programming-related issues void of all the startup nonsense.

Any ideas?

[cdawzrd]

What's wrong with /r/programming?

[cgag]

Worse community. I just want /hn/programming.

[dlisboa]

Lambda de Ultimate, but it's programming language-specific.

[unkoman]

4chan is pretty good. for real.

[nitrogen]

It's not just snark -- the site was literally called Startup News before it was renamed to Hacker News.