Absolutely, but it pays to be very skeptical and to pay closer attention to the negative "I have used this technology and it sucks because [links to the bug tracker]" articles than the ones that gush about how great they are.

There's probably a trendy Hacker News technology lifestyle cycle chart to be drawn, step 3 or 4 of which is "developer is bitten by deficiency in the technology, writes blog post saying it sucks and not to use it, gets 200 points and front page".

The main reason I read HN is to keep up with whatever manic fancy will catch the developers' eyes this week, leading to me supporting it for a couple of years.