"HN is turning into Reddit" was a cliché 10 years ago. Even the responses were clichés 10 years ago. I think we can say what Voltaire said when told that coffee is a slow poison: "It must be very slow." [1]

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=66057

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=223184

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=225134

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=247582

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=278785

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=289254

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=576431

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=582513

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=633099

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=926703

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1495742

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1523969

It would be fun to find the first appearance of this on HN. Here's one from when HN was still called Startup News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13852. So HN was turning into Reddit before it was HN. (The name Hacker News came in Aug 2007: https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html)

[1] Actually it was Fontenelle, not Voltaire, but I guess all 18th century French jokes eventually go to Voltaire.