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- Hacker News
- I still miss n-gate so much. I wonder where that guy went. Hope he's okay.by marcellus23
- It’s missing the new comments after 2015
- an archive link to bypass paywalls
- someone self promoting their similar tool/blog
- a wild paid shill
- kagi guy, he brings kagi into most discussions
- the AI slop
by tamimio - - an archive link to bypass paywalls
Not all heroes wear capes
by radialstub - Someone please create something similar about AI slop and comments about AI slop in an article. That will be more 2026 HN. /s (partially)by AnonHP
- dang comment with links to other parts of the discussionby stodor89
- The author's website design is insufferable, here's a fix for the horrible font and scrolljacking that's worse than the reader mode of your browser in case you are reading comments before the article:
document.body.style.color = "pink";by jraph - Speaking of Hacker News parodies, I wonder what happened to n-gate. They stopped updating their site around 2021by robotnikman
- There's an n-gate bot posting to Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@ngateby krapp
- I miss them so much.by tiagod
- I have stuff to say about JIT.by sellmesoap
- You've made a shortcut that's subtly wrong in some very obscure way concerning some yet to be actually seen obscure edge case and you should feel bad.by jraph
- Font sizes are pretty spot on. The up- and down-vote arrows need to be smaller, though, at least on mobile. ;)by WalterGR
- all the parody jokes aside, I still think hacker news commenting is so much more informative and solution oriented than reddit.
- Mostly agree. Hacker News has a stronger signal-to-noise ratio, but I wouldn't say it's immune to enshittification. It just manifests differently. And it feels anecdotally worse to me than it did 5 years ago. Some of that is all the posts about LLMs (which I would expect HN readers to be scientifically critical about, but the community is (mostly) not), but I don’t think that’s the only reason.by apercu
- I’ve got a bridge to sell you. Look past the VC tech blog shine everyone puts on their comments here and you’ll find it’s just as bad as Reddit, if not worse.by nearlyepic
- Depends entirely on the subreddit and the subject matter.by krapp
- There's no comment I could make that isn't already in the parody.by m463
- Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/244/
- Why are we regurgitating the past? How did it even make it to the home page?
(And why is this the top comment?!)
by dr_kiszonka