Are people really serious when they talk about the fabled Hacker News of old? What could it possibly have been like? I'm imagining something like zombo.com, only with lower contrast text.
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/
If you read a few rows down on that page, you'll see this:
"For the debate about MS being evil, you can head directly to HN where you'll also find an explanation of what bootstrapping a compiler means."
And that about sums it up. For a while I didn't even create an account because I didn't think I could add anything without sounding stupid compared to everyone else. Now I try to refrain from commenting for...different reasons.
Same here. Though I refrain less.
At some point, I'd like to go and find my first comment on here just to see what got me to make an account.
I don't notice a shift in tenor from the crowd of old and the one we have now.
https://news.ycombinator.com/classic