Click on the "HackerNews" link at the top of the page, then click on any of the "XXX comments" links on the resulting list of articles (that has more than a tiny number). Read some for yourself.

I suggest you go to the homepage and look for a post that interests you and see what people have to say about it.

Take the thread about the upcoming Raspberry Pi 5[1]. It's very active with comments so I think its a good example.

Notice how many comments are more than a paragraph long, they give valuable information from the article combined combined with an opinion of the author, and are sometimes just so very "nerdy" they're simply awesome to read, like someone running inflation calculations about how affordable a modern Raspberry Pi is compared to past times :) [2]

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37685580 [2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37688866

An example of a time when Cloudflare had an outage and the usual audience discussed it would be https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31820635.

Most HN readers know what Cloudflare is, know that Cloudflare occasionally blocks legitimate users for no good reason, and know that if every Discord user is unable to access the desktop app because Cloudflare is blocking their entire userbase then the Discord on-call engineers are almost certainly having a busy day.

If you're interested in learning what Cloudflare is and how to use it, you could read https://developers.cloudflare.com/learning-paths/get-started..., or if you're interested in reading some material that's more critical you can see the previous discussion about it at https://hn.algolia.com/?q=cloudflare.