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HN has surprise AMAs instead of scheduled ones. A post will be talking about something and someone will start discussing it and then you realize you’re reading one of the original coders.

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For a handful of programming discussions on HN that is true, but whenever HN starts touching categories which I have academic or professional experience - such as social sciences, business, devops, or cybersecurity - they become dumpster fire (AND I DARE YOU TELL ME DUNNING-KRUGER. I TRIPLE DOG DARE YOU).

I've also found certain subreddits now provide better value to discussions than HN at this point.

Sure, many such subreddits

- /r/AskHistorians

- ...

Ehm well I can't think of any more x)

This only happens on HN because these coders don’t comment on any other social media platform.

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