Hacker News Reader

HN represents a particular target market. The latest Apple products were not what this market was wishing for, that's all. Probably a lot of people being vocal will still buy them. Either way the Microsoft praise after the events was much less than the apple demise posts which means people did not fall in love with Microsoft, they are just disappointed.

In 2 months when people try out the new laptops and learn that they can easily press the escape button, there's going to be a lot of people feeling pretty dumb about the things they said.

If that's the case, I doubt they'll remember they said anything about it at all, much less feel pretty dumb about it. It's just human nature.

It's too early to tell. While I trust the Touch Bar will be good (or at least good enough) for most people, it's likely there will be some people who aren't happy with it.

Can't you just set up a simple filter?

no room for humour on HN...

Agreed. Hacker News has jumped the shark.