I miss Paul Graham's influence on HN. My impression is that since he "retired", the topics now are more uniformly focused on core hacking/startup stuff and HN lost its "good hackers are interested in anything" approach that I so fell in love with when I first discovered the site.
So I thought about quitting too, but there are still enough gems hidden beneath the avalanche of Haskell vs Lisp vs Erlang threads that keep me wanting to come back.
So I thought about quitting too, but there are still enough gems hidden beneath the avalanche of Haskell vs Lisp vs Erlang threads that keep me wanting to come back.