Comment by realityfactchex

Overall, HN is good.

Nowhere else really can you get that concentrated & large a place to weigh in on something and get (fairly) intelligent, (fairly) rapid, (fairly) reasonable, (fairly) fast feedback -- even if you don't agree with all of it.

Or, if you're not weighing in and getting responses, just to read the temperature on any discussion (of interest) and see reasonable views raised and discussed.

PG always said something like, if you want to see how silly some people are just read the bottom-ranked comments on HN.

Well maybe HN doesn't upvote the best. But hype gonna hype. It's the best we have AFAIK.