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A sort of, counterargument: I think that individuals don't change that much. Most, almost all of my friends haven't changed. Change is difficult and deliberate.

We get better at sorting through "noise" over time. What is noise to one person is music to someone else.

I'd argue that hacker news is changing as it grows - what started out as an acute viewpoint of like-minded people is growing into a fairly diverse membership that agrees on principles. This increases the noise for everyone else.

Services like HackerFollow and Twitter let us find and hang on to individuals in an otherwise growing and therefore noisier environment.

[edit: Removed 'slowly' from in front of 'growing'.]

My notion of change was not meant as a deep existential change, but more along the lines of what you meant:

    We get better at sorting through 
    "noise" over time.

That was more my intended meaning. Thanks for reading and clarifying.

HackerFollow has an SQL injection problem. When it asked me for a login phrase, I typed in "I'm a skier" and got a nice MySQL error, probably because of the ' character.

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