Maybe the internet has peaked in how much good versus evil it brings upon the world.

In the same time, hackernews has become a negative spiral of death. Every third post is negatively fatalist in some sort. From cancer to civilization and environmental collapse. Keep in mind, you can be fatalist in a positive way.

Everywhere you look, you see what you are looking for. As wallstreet people say, it is never as bad or as good as you think.

I suggest you do:

    echo '0.0.0.0 news.ycombinator.com' | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts

and just unblock it from time to time if you wanna see whats up. (thats what I do)