Yeah, I'm kind of used to Opera not always working with everything that it does not phase me anymore after 10 years of use. If it's something I need to see Opera won't render, I either hack around it in Opera or just open Chromium. I also understand that Chrome is popular and many of the projects on hn are hacks put together for the developer and to show us what they do for fun and learning versus projects made for the masses, so I give leadway when things don't always work. Sometimes it's just a simple mistake and the developer is glad to fix it (like he did here [updated in the linked article] for anyone that did not have an Apple keyboard). Although we all have our favorites, most of us like to be accommodating if it does not require hours of additional personal time.

I have all the large browsers installed though for web development, so I can always open something else if needed. I just can't move away from Opera, because of all the native power features I would have to give up or find extensions that may or may not work exactly the same and have future support by their developers. I can say though that unlike some sites I frequented in the past (such as slashdot), I have never had anyone on HN make snarky remarks about me being an Opera user, which is refreshing and quite the opposite of being excluded.

I do think Webkit will help Opera in the long run as well, as long as they do not use it as a reason to throw away their long term commitment they have stuck with to keep backwards support for features and user interface elements. If they ditch most of that on the notion they can just tell users to use Chrome extensions, I would be truly sadden and have little reason to use Opera anymore. I'd probably end up forking Chromium in attempt to make it function like Opera once did and hope other former Opera users would help contribute via code commits along the way. That's just worst case thinking and I'm going to stay optimistic for now :)

Not to get too off track though from the discussion, but the OP (above my original reply) is correct in that there is quite a bit of RoR and Apple upvoted articles (if that was his point), but there are many others in a variety of topics. Perhaps not everyone is as interested as I am about broadening my knowledge of various technologies whether I use them or not, but I think many of us on HN are. Since I don't follow RoR or Apple news that much, I don't mind seeing it, because it at least keeps me exposed to information I don't follow actively on my own.