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> I remember discovering HN around 2008 when I was a teenager.

> Now, it's rare for me to come across something I don't understand

And here I was, reading you thinking you were Donald Knuth, I think you vastly overestimate the breadth and depth of your knowledge.

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Hey, I appreciate your feeling for intellectual humility, but please don't express it as a personal attack. That just turns a noble feeling into a nasty one. Plus it's against both the rules and the intended spirit of the site: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

I agree with his point though, and I could have written that post myself. Its not that you fully understand everything on here, its that you are familiar enough that it removes the magic of it. I have been grappling with the same issue, in the past I could read manuals on distributed databases, but now I know enough about how those distributed systems work under the hood, its boring for me

If everything is boring to you I am pretty sure it is because it is trivial to you so it's possible you may come up with more interesting applications. I think a better explanation is that you are not as enthusiastic about CS as you think you are. When I see guys like Brian Kernighan, David Paterson or Andrew Tanenbaum still excited about stuff I cannot share your POV.

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