Then I rediscovered Hacker News. Even with a new account and a small project, the feedback was real. People cared, engaged, and it felt like being heard — not scrolled past.
I realized that HN is more than a dev forum. It’s like a daily newspaper of thoughts and discoveries. Some users share research, others ask life questions, some post side projects — and it all fits.
> After 18 years, HN didn’t change its design — just evolved with its mind. Twitter is for memes. Hacker News is for thinking.
What keeps you coming back to HN every day?
The other thing, it's what interests me the most. Technical things. Superb.
HN is one of the places I can see a number of news stories in one place. It's nice to both be able to submit stories and also not have to administer the website. HN has been a 10 year vacation from running a similar site that I will not name. Being and end-user is relaxing and nearly care-free. Watching someone else run this site is therapeutic and nearly cathartic. I compare it to watching sped-up videos of people landscaping with heavy equipment. Running something like this 10 years ago was a shit-show so I can only imagine how things have devolved which gives me a lot of respect for team dang.
It doesn't tailor a "feed" per user, so you know that everyone is seeing the same view of things.
It's very popular and has high engagement; you know stories and comments here matter in the industry.