[throwawaylolx]

>It’s not that I think the companies are the problem, it’s the machineries and imperatives of Late Capitalism, which for a while we foolishly thought Internet companies could route around.

A pseudo-communist critique of Google.

>But those Ten Blue Links surfaced by the PageRank-that-was had a special magic. I found them intensely human, a reflection of the voices populating what remains of the Web, the only platform without a vendor. This was true when I was there and I said so, but was laughed at.

A nostalgia-driven critique of Google.

This post is a bit of a mess. There is valid criticism too, but it sounds like the author doesn't know exactly what he doesn't like about Google anymore.

I can also say I used to find better articles on HN but clearly the userbase of this website has changed, despite the guidelines trying to insist HN doesn't change and it's just a "semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills". No, HN is worse just like most of the tech space.

[Apocryphon]

A nostalgia-driven critique of HN and of tech, delicious

Tim Bray has been shared on this site for the last seventeen years:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=11&prefix=false&q...

[timbray]

Wow, didn't know about that, thanks. But the query has to be "timbray" not tim bray

[throwawaylolx]

None of this is relevant to my comment.