It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news
I think as reddit continued to decline, more people here became interested in debating politics, societal stuff since there was no other &quot;serious&quot; place for it. I wish some of that stuff wasn&#x27;t here, since it takes away from discussions in other threads.<p>But (and I hope dang sees this) occasionally when HN &quot;strays&quot; away from tech it&#x27;s absolutely brilliant. There&#x27;s tons of discussion here on some health issues, diets, stuff like that, where I would never have found such good discussion (even the anecdotal evidence is interesting and useful) and where you can really walk away being better off from having read it. If that means tolerating the occasional thread about how appropriate politics is in the workplace, or how bad everything is for mental health, I&#x27;m more than happy to keep coming back here for that.<p>edit: by the way, I&#x27;d be quite interested in what a thread like this posted 8 years ago would look like. Wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if people were saying this website was &quot;going downhill&quot; too back then. I think as long as the 12-18 only-cares-about-memes demographic stays on reddit, HN will stay just fine.