1) YC user is on drugs, has just completed what he considers to be a hacking feat, or is otherwise mentally stoked, and feels the irrepressible need to share what music he likes.
2) YC user realises that he can tell the world what he likes by posting a news item about it under the pretense of asking what other people like, oblivious to the fact that no one really cares. Note that if said user really cared what others liked, he perhaps would not include his own taste in the post. But he doesn't - this is expressive, one-way-only.
3) Some other YC users feel the same need and so congregate on that thread and reply with their own musical taste. Note that there is no actual discussion (how could there be?), just a bunch of people shouting their tastes into a tube with no one at the other end.
4) YC is less valuable for it.
5) Rinse, repeat every few weeks.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=132026 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=61831 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=144666 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=139901 etc, ad nauseam.
Am I the only one who thinks this?