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I think it's ok to be human for a minute, even for HN.

Much like Stack Overflow I think HN could actually be more useful if it lightened up a little. It needn’t instantly degenerate to reddit if a joke or feelings are allowed.

It's ok to feel things on HN. Intellectual curiosity, the core value of the site, is a feeling.

They're trying to gather all the sadness on Talkspace so it can some day be subject to a sudden shut down and sadness will be eliminated, forever!

Likewise for intellectual stimuli, on HN.

Nice self-fulfilling prophecy there.