alt Hacker NewsHN has gone wildly cynical in a way I haven't seen in this community previously. It's exhausting, and makes me spend less time here.
I appreciate the effort dang and team have put into keeping the quality high here over the years, and I'm not sure what the optimal solution is.
It comes from a history of this sort of thing where an Amazon staff person will say that X will always or never happen and then their promises falls flat because of big company dynamics.
Fig: "The open-source project will continue to be maintained!" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39684576
And yet: https://github.com/withfig/autocomplete/issues/2068
Work from home: "My team's never going back to the office." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32779047
Same commenter a few months later: "I (work at Amazon and) already have to go in once a week, and I literally do NOTHING that day. [...] This is a disaster in the making."