I've been reading HN for 4+ years now, and I think that practically every post in that thread is spot-on. HN has turned into the very thing that I thought the guidelines were designed to prevent. The internet doesn't need another reddit, it's bad enough as it is.

HN has become host to feminist shilling and corporate endorsements, on top of the already flawed content model that encourages disengagement to the point where people are just reposting headlines and treating HN as a comments section for the article itself.

Either way, there's something to be said for constructive criticism like this, and HN can potentially learn from this.

It won't. But it could.