>If this is what passes for substantive and documented talk on HN, then things are getting a turn for the worse.
You mean contentless comments that don't engage with the thread they respond to but instead lament some lost golden age?
>Is hn at an impasse point, where no more technical issues are up for discussion?
HN always had a mix of technical and non-technical threads (the major one being business issues, which are of course non technical -- it's a VC firm's creation after all). And that's because, despite what the name might suggest, HN is not about people with one-track minds.
You mean contentless comments that don't engage with the thread they respond to but instead lament some lost golden age?
>Is hn at an impasse point, where no more technical issues are up for discussion?
HN always had a mix of technical and non-technical threads (the major one being business issues, which are of course non technical -- it's a VC firm's creation after all). And that's because, despite what the name might suggest, HN is not about people with one-track minds.