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HN always contained a healthy dosage of politics, anti-big-companies rants and gossip. I distinctively remember a really popular link at one point showing a picture of Steve Jobs on a meeting with Eric Schmidt over coffee and people were considering it some kind of historic event and also commented on Steve's choice for shoes, not to mention all the stupid speculation about what this meeting was about. It made me sick.

What really happened is that some noise threshold was reached, while the website's implementation hasn't changed much and so links about engineering, programming, startups, weekend projects and so on have a much harder time reaching the front-page and managing to stay there for a couple of hours.

HN is still the best place on the web if you crave for rants. I swear, if you want confirmation bias or to read funny and informative rants of smart and educated people, you can hardly beat HN.