Even in technical discussions, you can observe arrogance and dismissal by commenters who are unacceptably underqualified in the subjects being discussed. This place has become a joke nowadays.
I wouldn't go that far. The signal to noise ratio is worse than it used to be, but there's still nothing else like HN and there are still a lot of interesting technical conversations to observe or to be had. I continue to learn more here than anywhere else. I'll cope with putting in a bit more effort mentally filtering out the unproductive conversations.
yes there is, lobste.rs is exactly HN but with a lot more selective membership and hence better comments.
which is fine, if that's what you want, but, as a daily reader of both, they aren't even close to being the same thing
I prefer that strategy rather than have an environment of "gatekeepers".
Great observation.