[axod]

Because HN used to be above that linkbait BS.

The story is interesting and useful and stands up on its own without having to resort to "in only 300 lines!!!".

[poet]

What HN used to be above is this stupid pedantry. 300 lines of code is a euphemism for a simple system. That's it. Who gives a shit if the actual system was 800 lines, or even several thousand lines?? The system they made was simple.

Notice how it's a self post? It's not some grand ploy to get more pageviews for a blog. What's bullshit is that half of the comments section is being taken up by this contentless debate. That's the actual poison on HN.

[ascendant]

Why is it every community ever is awesome until that third person joins? Then suddenly it's all about how things "used to be".

Are linkbait BS titles the cancer that is killing /HN?

[sjosji]

original title doesn't show the exclamations, you know: scope and citing :)