"Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Rules made in the late 2000s might not necessarily hold on HN in 2025.

HN has shifted into a lagging Reddit, and preemptively shutting down any discourse about the falling quality of discourse on HN is ludicrous and plain annoying.

HN has changed, and A LOT of Reddit does leak onto HN, and this absolutely deserves conversation.