Comment by sph

> I learned to accept the fact that HN reached a critical mass point that made it fill up with people who market themselves as "product-oriented engineers", which is a way to say "I only build things when they lead to products".

This is a mentality I am working extremely hard to get rid of, and I blame HN for indoctrinating me this way.

That said, these days I don't view this place as filled with "product-oriented engineers", but it's become like any other internet forum where naysayers and criticism always rises to the top. You could solve world hunger and the top comment would be someone going "well, actually..."

It's not HN that killed the hackers, it's the Internet snark that put the final nail in the coffin.