I stopped reading or contributing to Hacker News a decade or more ago. The people there aren’t worth it. They’re mostly pseudo-intellectuals in the tradition of Paul Graham - meaning they use big words, without actually knowing anything about the topic.
there probably needs to be some better kind of reputation system. if my favorite programmer in the world upvotes a comment, and brogrammer69 upvotes a different comment, those should not have the same impact on what i see 